Edward Bunker Quotes
In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
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I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.
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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
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I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
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In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.
