Bruce Willis Quotes
I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
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I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
