Bruce Johnston Quotes

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

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• Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Dad
  • Manager
  • Hospital

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Time
  • Think
  • Singing

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.

  

  Malese Jow
  • Think
  • Games
  • Hunger

• You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • You
  • Year
  • Answer

• Victoria's Secret is like a big family.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Family
  • Like
  • Big

• Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Party
  • System

• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Found
  • Late

• I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Wall

• When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Truth
  • American
  • Imagination

• A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Tree

• You are a good friend and we welcome you.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Good
  • Friend

• Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.

  

  Alberto Moravia

• Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Baseball

• I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Differences
  • Impact
  • Activity

• I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Work
  • America
  • Career

• Place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  

  Confucius
  • Children
  • Hopes
  • Sorrows

• But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

  

  Bruce Johnston