John Bradshaw Quotes
The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
Quotes to Explore
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
