Bruce Sutter Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
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The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
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I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
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The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
