Joseph Bruchac Quotes
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
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It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
