Bruce Jackson Quotes
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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I have always loathed working out.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
