Bradley Denton Quotes
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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How does one get bored of life?
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
