Brian Ruckley Quotes
Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I have selective hearing.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
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Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
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I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.
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Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
