Bruce Oldfield Quotes
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
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No doubt about it, the higher you achieve, the higher you reach.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.
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I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
