John Bracken Quotes
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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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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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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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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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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'If you are with God in truth and faith, whatever comes as a blessing or trial will be what God allows. If you are called by God, from beginning to the end, your journey has been documented. Nothing outside your documentary will happen without God’s knowledge.'
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
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Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
