Michael Owen Bruce Quotes
It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.
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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
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Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to challenge yourself, to push your limits beyond what you thought possible, to learn from climbers on the trail ahead of you, and to take in some amazing views. Your performance on the mountain you climbed last week or last month or last year doesn't matter - because it's all about what you are doing right now.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
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Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.
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It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.
