Bruce Bartlett Quotes
So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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ICE has strayed so far from its mission. It's supposed to be here to keep Americans safe, but what it's turned into is frankly a terrorist organization of its own that is terrorizing people that are coming to this country.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Is typecasting really a problem?
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Trust yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.
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Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
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Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
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So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.
