Bruce Feiler Quotes
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
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There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
