Alan Bradley Quotes
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.Alan Bradley
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann -
I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte -
Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
Gary Bauer -
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
Pablo Sandoval
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
Ira Glass -
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz -
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
Iman -
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
Sam Wyly -
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett -
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. Martin Kohe -
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
Sam Kean -
I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
Usher -
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion
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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well.
Cheryl Mills -
I loved working with Eva Longoria.
Anna Faris -
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey -
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.
C. S. Lewis -
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
Alan Bradley