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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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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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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Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
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Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to your (day-to-day) process without being emotionally attached to your (day-to-day) results. Be emotionally engaged, but not emotionally attached.
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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.”
