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've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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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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When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.
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Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American audience, and that is that the Islamic world has a very strong sense of history. In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.
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I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.
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I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
