Brad Blanton Quotes
“We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.”
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I don't like controversy.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.
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You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.
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I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
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“We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.”
