Michael Owen Bruce Quotes
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I've got them in the can and I am looking for a label.
