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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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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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'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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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 think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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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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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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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.
