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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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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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 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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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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I generally like to wear my hair down, preferably with soft curls. But when I'm having a bad hair day, I like to wear my hair in French braids or fishtail braids.
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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
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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.
