Bruce Feiler Quotes
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I don't study; I create.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.
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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.
