If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.


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BERNARD MALAMUD
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can ...
BERNARD MELTZER
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you ...
SAINT BERNARD
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
BERNARD MELTZER
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan...
BERNARD CORNWELL
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a mor...
BERNARD PIVOT
They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig!
BERNARD CORNWELL
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...
BERNARD CORNWELL
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
BERNARD CORNWELL
I thought as a millennium project it would be fun … to have all the peo...
BERNARD WEBER
I believe that after more than 2,000 years it's time to redefine the world wonders. Thanks to intern...
BERNARD WEBER
I have to admit, before I started the project, I had about three weeks of sleepless nights. The idea...
BERNARD WEBER
They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were sym...
BERNARD WEBER
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
BERNARD VOTO
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriage...
BERNARD VOTO
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse stead...
BERNARD VOTO
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom
BERNARD VOTO
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it
BERNARD VOTO
Tuesday can be a turning point. It's set to be a big day. It has to be a very big day. We've counted...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.
BERNARD THIBAULT
The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented...
BERNARD THIBAULT
Tuesday can be a turning point.
BERNARD THIBAULT
That would be a decision with serious consequences.
BERNARD THIBAULT
When all unions join together to bring a consistent message, there is a response and support from th...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT
Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real eme...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We are more than three million on the street. It is historic. It is unthinkable for the prime minist...
BERNARD THIBAULT
We will not allow it to be written in French law that workers can be laid off at a click of the fing...
BERNARD THIBAULT
The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are th...
BERNARD SIEGEL
He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he ...
BERNARD SIEGEL
I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,
BERNARD SIEGEL
I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of t...
BERNARD SIEGEL
You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things...
BERNARD SHAW
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
BERNARD SHAW
What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fi...
BERNARD SHAW
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn
BERNARD SHAW