Joseph Bruchac Quotes
From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
