William Throsby Bridges Quotes
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you didn't say things like they say now, out loud, about race and things. But that's just progress. When are we going to find out that we're all the same - we're all absolutely, without a doubt, the same?
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You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.
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Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
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Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
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Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
