Bruce Henderson Quotes

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Bruce Henderson

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• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Dreams

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • God
  • Men
  • College

• I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Never
  • Watch

• I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • The Right Thing

• We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Myself
  • Explore
  • Nashville

• It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky

• We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.

  

  Pat Robertson

• The actions of all group leaders throughout history have had one common element: altruism - common good of the collective. Religious leaders and the 'moral' majority condemn the likes of Hitler, Stalin, etc. but their movements and foundations are alike.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • History
  • Religious

• Stolen sweets are best.

  

  Colley Cibber

• This is the Outsider's extremity. He does not prefer not to believe; he doesn't like feeling that futility gets the last word in the universe; his human nature would like to find something it can answer to with complete assent. But honesty prevents his accepting a solution that he cannot reason about.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I would love to share screen space with Pawan Kalyan.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Space

• And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Victory
  • Citizenship

• A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Work
  • Home
  • Ugly

• It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Risk
  • Failure

• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Population
  • Less
  • Then

• The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

  

  Bruce Henderson