Bill Bradley Quotes

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Bill Bradley

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Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

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Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring

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But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.

Tom Vilsack

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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

Robert Winston

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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

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I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

Deborah Wiles

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I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Clemence Poesy

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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Avi

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There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Phyllis Diller

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When something is heartwarming and triumphant, and not corny or preachy, it's such a powerful thing.

Perfume Genius

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