Bruce Johnston Quotes
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.
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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
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I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
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We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.