Bruce Feiler Quotes
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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The big things are the things that you don't expect.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.
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Questioning one's own 'top-level' goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile - unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?
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Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.
