W. Bruce Cameron Quotes
I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
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I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.
