Bruce Jackson Quotes
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.
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I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
