John Bruton Quotes
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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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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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
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States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
