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.
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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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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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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
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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.
