Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Change
  • Satisfied
  • Betray

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Life
  • Great
  • Poetry

• I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Think
  • Know
  • Play

• When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dream

• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hard

• You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Know
  • Learn

• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Cool

• I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Live
  • Moment
  • I Can

• I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • May
  • Want
  • Know

• It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Daddy
  • Summertime
  • Mamma

• Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Serious

• Mo: I... y'know, um... I'm really attracted to you! thought bubble: Omigod! Who said that?!Caption: A horrifying silence ensues. Is it an hour, or merely several seconds?Harriet: I've had a crush on you for months.Mo: Thank goddess! I was about to commit hara-kiri with my teaspoon!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Silence
  • Crush
  • Goddess

• What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • People
  • Alone

• I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Good
  • Great
  • Real

• I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Search

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• Boys are so much drama.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Drama
  • Much

• I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

  

  Geena Davis

• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Blue
  • Wells
  • Impressive

• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Graduation