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• As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

  Jeff Bridges

  Moving, Long, Knows

  "SDCC 2010: TRON LEGACY Interview Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 28, 2010.

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• It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Screw Ups, Kind

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lists, Okay, Like Me

  Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

  Jeff Bridges

  Joy, Trying, Technique

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• If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

  Eli Broad

  People, Paper, Want

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• Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

  Eli Broad

  School, Giving, United States

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• After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fake People, Life Is Hard, Masters

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

  Joseph Brodsky

  World, Yardsticks, Language

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, Guilt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

  Emily Bronte

  Work, Silence, Effort

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Death, Dying

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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• If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

  Albert Brooks

  Couple, Interesting, Want

  "Albert Brooks, ‘This Is 40’ Star, On Oscar Snubs, Working In LA & The Danger Of Twitter" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

  Albert Brooks

  Play, Want, Audience

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• There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Income, Neighbor

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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  Garth Brooks

  Would Be, Reason, Boxes

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• Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Black, Groups, Minorities

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• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores You, People

  "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.

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• Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

  Mel Brooks

  Laughter, Laughing, Looks

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• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Religion, Politics

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• If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

  Mel Brooks

  Winning, Soapbox, Dictator

  "Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Doe, Comedy

  "Springtime of Brooks' autumn years" by John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

  Joyce Brothers

  Women, Memorable, Goes On

  "The Shakespeare Book of Lists : The Ultimate Guide to the Bard, His Plays, and How They'Ve Been Interpreted (And Misinterpreted) Through the Ages". Book by Michael Lomonico, 2001.

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• As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

  Joyce Brothers

  Numbers, People, Care

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• All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

  David R. Brower

  Years, Growth, Energy

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