Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Bridge
  • West
  • East

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Economy
  • Finding
  • Sharing

• I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Book

• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Idiots

• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • She
  • Growing

• The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'

  

  Idris Elba
  • Why
  • Character
  • Man

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

• A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

  

  Marvin Bower
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• You never know what I'm gonna do.

  

  Sia LSD

• I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Life
  • High

• I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Time
  • Long

• People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

  

  William Congreve
  • Firsts
  • Cry
  • Thieves

• Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Space
  • Forever

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Graduation