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

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• 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

• Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Animals
  • WIld

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

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • High
  • Divorce

• 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

• Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell

• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Laughter
  • Weeping

• Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Hair
  • Prince
  • Easter

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

  

  Bruce Henderson