Keith Braithwaite Quotes
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
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In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.
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Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
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I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
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It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
