Brad Meltzer quote: "Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY."

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We ...
BRAD MELTZER

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight l...
BRAD MELTZER

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States...
BRAD MELTZER

She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in ...
BRAD MELTZER

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
BRAD MELTZER

Jack & Bobby ... Sometimes the greatest people can be seated right next to you.
BRAD MELTZER

[Meltzer's fifth novel is a thriller about two Hill aides who run a betting game about Congress; one...
BRAD MELTZER

Sloth: Which current congressman uses the term 'Great Americans' as a codeword to ask his staff if t...
BRAD MELTZER

Envy: Which senator once had a dimmer switch in their secret hideaway?
BRAD MELTZER

From the time I could read, I've been devouring these things. I had a $5 allowance growing up in Bro...
BRAD MELTZER

But I just love the written word. I love to paint with the written word.
BRAD MELTZER

I'm excited just to start my new novel,
BRAD MELTZER

That's what's so appealing here is getting to see that middle.
BRAD MELTZER

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow wit...
BRAD MELTZER

[The resulting show --] still amazing to me how it all came together, ... who understand each other....
BRAD MELTZER

...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So ...
BRAD MELTZER

The thing we always loved the most when we pitched this,
BRAD MELTZER

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
BRAD MELTZER

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewa...
BRAD MELTZER

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolu...
BRAD MELTZER

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
BRAD MELTZER

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a co...
BRAD MELTZER

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the cours...
BRAD MELTZER

...there are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.
BRAD MELTZER

In the end, one detail is unarguable: There will always be those searching for treasure. Never forge...
BRAD MELTZER

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more...
BRAD MELTZER

For years we have admired Don's expertise and presence in the community. We are excited to have him ...
ALAN MELTZER

Greenspan showed that you can have long periods of full employment without inflation.
ALAN MELTZER

It was very hard to bring it down to 4%, but it was also very hard to bring it down from 4% because ...
ALAN MELTZER

Volcker brought inflation down to about 4% -- Greenspan took it the rest of the way.
ALAN MELTZER

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete...
BERNARD MELTZER

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
BERNARD MELTZER

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret...
BERNARD MELTZER

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
BERNARD MELTZER

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nat...
BERNARD MELTZER

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpfu...
BERNARD MELTZER

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slight...
BERNARD MELTZER

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER

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

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
BERNARD MELTZER

If you are Alan Greenspan, it's hard to make a rule that would do any better. On the other hand, we ...
ALLEN MELTZER

Assuming you can get some political stability, the rule of law and the protection of property rights...
ALLEN MELTZER

Leaving it to them would certainly be a big mistake until they're restructured and much more effecti...
ALLEN MELTZER

If you are Alan Greenspan, it's hard to make a rule that would do any better.
ALLEN MELTZER

There have been a few who have lusted after the job, but the vice chairmen are chosen for different ...
ALLEN MELTZER

After 1996, he recognized there had been a productivity change. [Stock prices] rose because people b...
ALLEN MELTZER

They'll want to see him tested, ... Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a cri...
ALLAN MELTZER

He had to agree to it and accept it and believe in it.
ALLAN MELTZER

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it...
ALLAN MELTZER

He's staying with the position he had before. There are local bubbles but no national bubble.
ALLAN MELTZER

I don't think that you can set policy according to possible contingencies that may occur, but about ...
ALLAN MELTZER

Don't believe ... the widely reported loss of millions of manufacturing jobs since the Bush administ...
ALLAN MELTZER

He thinks academic economists are much more concerned with rules and models, while he's more concern...
ALLAN MELTZER

He's very knowledgeable about fiscal areas and has worldwide contacts.
ALLAN MELTZER

We get cheap goods in exchange for pieces of paper, which we can print at a great rate.
ALLAN MELTZER

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there wa...
ALLAN MELTZER

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly al...
BERNARD MELTZER

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you...
BERNARD MELTZER

Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and r...
BERNARD MELTZER

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
BERNARD MELTZER

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
ALBERT MELTZER

The fact that you have only these minor criticisms is quite an achievement.
ALLAN MELTZER

His big failing is that he hasn't provided the Fed with a replicable method of re-creating Alan Gree...
ALLAN MELTZER

What he's shown is that you can have full employment and low inflation at the same time. The Keynesi...
ALLAN MELTZER

They'll want to see him tested. Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a crisis ...
ALLAN MELTZER

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgo...
BERNARD MELTZER

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you ...
BERNARD MELTZER

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A frie...
BERNARD MELTZER

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
BERNARD MELTZER

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
BERNARD MELTZER

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up
BERNARD MELTZER

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
BERNARD MELTZER

Friends are God's way of taking care of us
BERNARD MELTZER

Crazy days and screwed up nights
Tons of crushes and stupid fights
Secrets we'll take to the...
BERNARD MELTZER

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.
BERNARD MELTZER

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficien...
FRANçOISE MELTZER

There's a huge buzz about the sport right now. Old sports editors are set in their ways, and I don't...
DAVID MELTZER

We are thrilled to add another group of Disneyland hotels to our portfolio of customers. They have p...
DAVID MELTZER

The American Red Cross is very excited to be bringing the experience and expertise of the World Wild...
DAVID MELTZER

Wait until the commissioners in New York and other places get a load of the gate the show in Anaheim...
DAVID MELTZER

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his g...
DAVID MELTZER

He's very knowledgeable about fiscal areas and has worldwide contacts.
ALLAN H. MELTZER

He thinks academic economists are much more concerned with rules and models, while he's more concern...
ALLAN H. MELTZER

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there wa...
ALLAN H. MELTZER

We get cheap goods in exchange for pieces of paper, which we can print at a great rate.
ALLAN H. MELTZER

This is like 'Election 2000' in Florida.
BARI MELTZER NORMAN

People want to know why college admissions is so frenzied and why kids can't be kids anymore. It's t...
BARI MELTZER NORMAN

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss ...
BRAD PITT

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is bo...
BRAD STONE

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
BRAD PITT

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly try...
BRAD FELD

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY

Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.
BRAD GORESKI

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.
BRAD FELD

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - j...
BRAD GORESKI

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm...
BRAD PAISLEY

In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the c...
BRAD THOR

I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging ...
BRAD GORESKI

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about t...
BRAD PITT

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think...
BRAD FELD

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family member...
BRAD PAISLEY

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.
BRAD GARRETT

Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there's no place better to enjoy some frothy ca...
BRAD GORESKI

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in...
BRAD PITT

When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems ...
BRAD GORESKI

St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.
BRAD FELD

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hote...
BRAD GILBERT

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person...
BRAD FELD

I wonder if, as the tech to deliver content continues to evolve, we will start seeing the one season...
BRAD FELD

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 shou...
BRAD SCHNEIDER

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wea...
BRAD HOLLAND

For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' I...
BRAD FELD

Boulder is a very smart community.
BRAD FELD

My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c...
BRAD FELD

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season.
BRAD GORESKI

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about...
BRAD PITT

knocking the other guy out. It's just getting in there and participating. So we wanted to keep it lo...
BRAD PITT

[In fact, all heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ll offer is a simple] No, IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã...
BRAD PITT

[They flew on a supply helicopter and visited a tent camp for survivors. Pitt announced that he woul...
BRAD PITT

My week consists ... five days out of the seven I've got at least three cars of paparazzi on me that...
BRAD PITT

We're telling more about not behaving as a spectator, ... More the point of the story is to get in a...
BRAD PITT

My beard is staying because it covers my bum shaped chin!' - Discussing his much discussed beard
BRAD PITT

Billy Idol called... he wants his look back.
BRAD PITT

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen." .
BRAD PITT

I'm on my own little quest. You get a handful of scripts each year, and you find one that's interest...
BRAD PITT

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme povert...
BRAD PITT

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
BRAD PITT

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
BRAD PITT

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
BRAD PITT

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone li...
BRAD PAISLEY

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the...
BRAD SHERMAN

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamental...
BRAD STONE

Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.
BRAD FELD

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
BRAD PITT

Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people o...
BRAD FELD

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it'...
BRAD GORESKI

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars pl...
BRAD GORESKI

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard,...
BRAD HENRY

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
BRAD HENRY

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have ...
BRAD GARRETT

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our com...
BRAD HENRY

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
BRAD HENRY

I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends a...
BRAD GORESKI

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the ...
BRAD PITT

A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit.
BRAD GORESKI

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have ...
BRAD BIRD

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
BRAD PAISLEY

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perha...
BRAD CARSON

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
BRAD SHERMAN

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilie...
BRAD HENRY

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.
BRAD KATSUYAMA

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front...
BRAD PAISLEY

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
BRAD THOR

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film...
BRAD DOURIF

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then ...
BRAD PITT

I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of...
BRAD PITT

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they&...
BRAD PITT

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.
BRAD GORESKI

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people...
BRAD WENSTRUP

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair ...
BRAD PITT

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
BRAD PAISLEY

The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out D...
BRAD THOR

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value ...
BRAD PITT

What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't ...
BRAD GORESKI

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.
BRAD THOR

You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching t...
BRAD GORESKI

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
BRAD BIRD

I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had ...
BRAD FELD

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
BRAD BIRD

Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer...
BRAD WENSTRUP

St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinal...
BRAD FELD

December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, ...
BRAD FELD

Obviously, sometimes I just feel like looking like a box of crayons.
BRAD GORESKI

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oi...
BRAD SHERMAN

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a...
BRAD BIRD

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you...
BRAD FELD

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possib...
BRAD GORESKI

It's very rare that I get really upset about something my assistants have done.
BRAD GORESKI

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

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