Bruce Kent Quotes

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

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• The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

  

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• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

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• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

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• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

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• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

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• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

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• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

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• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

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• Some people are just right for you.

  

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• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

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• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

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• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

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• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

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• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

  

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• We don't like talking about race in the U.K. - it's a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for the covers, but I believe we have to talk about it.

  

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• I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

  

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• An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

  

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• In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

  

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• The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

  

  Bruce Kent
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