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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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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Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.
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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
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Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.
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States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
