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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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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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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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
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After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
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I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.
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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.”
