Bruce Feiler Quotes
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
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People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
