Bruce Feiler Quotes
I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.
