Bryant Terry Quotes
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
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The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.
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Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.
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If we meet our great responsibility, I believe we can not only deter aggression and create an ever more secure and widening world of security - but we can also shape, step by step, a future of liberty and opportunity across the world.
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I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.
