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Bruce Hornsby Quotes

Bruce Hornsby quote: "When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people..."

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

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[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. Mark Twain
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles
Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. Kristin Scott Thomas
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick. David Sedaris
George R. R. Martin quote: "Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not...."
Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you. George R. R. Martin
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down. Antoine Fuqua
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. William McKinley
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing. Deepak Chopra
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It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. Tim Ryan
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. Edward Steichen
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The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over. Jodi Picoult