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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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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You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.
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That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
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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.
