Bruce Oldfield Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have selective hearing.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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I grew up in the church.
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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however 'good' I may become, remains unchanged.
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From Cesario
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
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I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
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Don't take things too seriously.
