John Bruton Quotes

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

John Bruton

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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  • Daughter

• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
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• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
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• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

  Rafael Cruz
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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.

  

  Ori Gersht
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• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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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?

  

  Walt Whitman
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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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
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  • May

• 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.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
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• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
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• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • 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.'

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

  

  Diego Luna
  • People
  • Ignorance

• We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Fear
  • Question
  • Eyes

• Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Matter
  • Difficult

• I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

  

  Nancy Lam
  • Guilt
  • Moderation
  • Pencil

• States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

  

  John Bruton
  • Fear