Bruce Feiler Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
