Bruce Feiler Quotes
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
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Those who chose not to empathize enable real monsters; for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy.
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Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind-that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.
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Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.
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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
