Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
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I'm a big Peyton Manning fan.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.
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There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
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You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
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Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Shulamit Ran, Melinda Wagner, Jennifer Higdon, and Caroline Shaw. When Marin Alsop was asked what it felt like to conduct the Last Night of the Proms, she said, "I am exceedingly proud to be 'the first' but I am also a bit shocked that there can still be firsts for women in 2013!"
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WHY is ocean acidification so dangerous? The question is tough to answer only because the list of reasons is so long. Depending on how tightly organisms are able to regulate their internal chemistry, acidification may affect such basic processes as metabolism, enzyme activity, and protein function. Because it will.
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I like to groove a little bit!
