Claude M. Bristol Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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I have always been an active part of my community.
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I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
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If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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We usually get what we anticipate.
