Phil Bredesen (Philip Norman Bredesen Jr) Quotes
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.It took me too long to realize that I don't take good picturesCuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
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The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.
