Bridges Quotes - Page 38

• Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Acting, Lasts

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Men, Trying, Remember

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Independent, Cedars

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.

  Jay Bell

  Hate, Passion, Watches

  Jay Bell (2012). “Kamikaze Boys (gay young adult)”, p.221, Jay Bell

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• Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

  Mike Parry

  Would Be, Thousand, Cents

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• Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Want, Relation

  TIME Magazine, July 24, 2006.

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• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  Barry Manilow

  New York, Hips, Brooklyn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So, Im thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of The Joker as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

  Jerry Robinson

  Brother, Player, Thinking

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

  Janine Benyus

  Stress, Tree, Algorithms

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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  School, Kids, Technology

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, People

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Long, Growth

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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• I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

  Ursula Vernon

  Survivor

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• I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Imagination, Phrases

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Years, Challenges

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• ... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

  Robert Musil

  Frozen, Pages, Steps

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Technique, Sometimes

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• Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Reality, Issues

  "Kissinger: Ukraine Must Be Bridge Between East And West" by Henry A. Kissinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

  Robert Benchley

  Running, Mistake, Player

  Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”

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• Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Church, Acting

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• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Strength, Heart, Secret

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

  Ishmael Reed

  Brooklyn Bridge, America, Style

  Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

  Ralph Richardson

  Science, Talking, Mind

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