Bret Lott Quotes
I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
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I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
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Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.
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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
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I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
