Bruce Hornsby Quotes
When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
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When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
