Bruce Feiler Quotes

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Bruce Feiler

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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Children
  • History
  • House

• I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Family
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Business
  • Flexible
  • Reliable

• 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.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• My inspiration is love and history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Inspiration

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • School
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• Besides acting, I love reading books, dancing, singing, and following a few sports. My favorite sport is tennis. I love travelling, and I see a new place every year. Luckily, my job helps me do that very easily. In my spare time, I also spend time watching English TV shows like 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Modern Family,' 'House MD' and a few others.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

  

  Du Mu
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Stupid

• Part of the way that I work is to observe.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Work

• The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Family
  • History