Bruce Feiler Quotes
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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You can't live your life through your children.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.
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It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
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Yoga is an art and science of living.
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I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.
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The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
