Joseph Bruchac Quotes
I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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I think there's a connection with what you wear. If you don't feel good about what you're wearing, you aren't going to feel confident, and you aren't going to be able to concentrate.
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
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I'm mad for satin.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.
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So, Huelsenbeck has put our feud in print - HA HASo he sneers at my bourgeois home - my childwho cries, who has to be changed and fedSo he laughs at my solid wife - that she's no Anna Bloom...
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.
