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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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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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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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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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
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Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
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It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
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A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.
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No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.
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Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
