Bruce Bartlett Quotes
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
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Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
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If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
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Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.
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The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
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I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.
