Bruce Willis Quotes
I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
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Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
