Joseph Bruchac Quotes
My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
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My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.
