Brad Alan Lewis Quotes
As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.
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When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
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Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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The interesting thing for 'Playing House' to me is we both are at crossroads in the pilot. We both have our lives kind of upside-down, and then because we're taking care of each other, we're able to move forward and live our best lives.
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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
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As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.
