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We build too many walls and not enough bridges. -- Isaac Newton
I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant. -- Michael Sheen
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -- Jim Rohn
Never burn your bridges till you come to them. -- Clayton Rawson
But which is the stone that supports the bridge? -- Kublai Khan
Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man. -- Stephen Rodrick
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. -- Phyllis Theroux
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. -- Bruce Jackson
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. -- Bruce Jackson
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. -- Brian May
The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.' -- Stephen Rodrick
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. -- Widad Akrawi
Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever. -- Ben Barnes
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it. -- Judi Dench
Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. -- Robert Englund
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. -- Alex Haley
Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same. -- Jim Croce
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. -- George C. Wallace
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. -- Oscar Levant
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. -- Max Beckmann
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. -- Todd Solondz
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day. -- Chad Lindberg
Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely. -- Edwin Lawrence
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. -- Nicolas Roeg
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. -- Joseph Straus
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. -- H. L. Mencken
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. -- Thomas Fuller
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. -- James Dean
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County" -- Robert James Waller
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose. -- Michael Musto
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. -- Mattie Stepanek
I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you. -- Bobby Darin
They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy. -- Chris Rock
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs. -- Paul Simon
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. -- David McCullough
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. -- Patrick Stewart
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. -- Roger Tory Peterson
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told: -- Rudyard Kipling
There's nothing wrong with not liking what you don't like. I mean, the Leon Bridges that we played is a little more straight traditionalist. I like the way this plays around with classic sounds, but... -- Stephen W. Thompson
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
I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own. -- Mick Jagger
I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that. -- Andy Kindler
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine.' -- Jennifer Lawrence
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant. -- Bow Wow
Cause getting your dreams It's strange, but it seems A little -- well -- complicated There's a kind of a sort of : cost There's a couple of things get : lost There are bridges you cross You didn't know you crossed Until you've crossed. -- Stephen Schwartz
Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one. -- Emma Forrest
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. -- Beau Bridges
I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love. -- Leon Bridges
My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver. -- Jeff Bridges
Education is all a matter of building bridges. -- Ralph Ellison
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward. -- Fridtjof Nansen
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must. -- Fred Thompson
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. -- Julie Burchill
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. -- Richard M. Nixon
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. -- Richard Attias
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T. D. Jakes
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. -- H. G. Wells
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission. -- Richard Attias
It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you. -- Mike Davidson
There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between. -- Ron White
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France
There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges. -- Dale Dauten
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians. -- A. R. Rahman
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. -- Ernie Pyle
For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. -- Christopher Nolan
Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way. -- Peter York
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. -- Barack Obama
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action. -- Philippe Petit
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Yes, burn your bridges. -- Bette Davis
Burn your bridges every 2 years. -- Carlos Castaneda
Let's build bridges, not walls. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Walls turned sideways are bridges. -- Angela Davis
Words build bridges into unexplored regions. -- Adolf Hitler
I've always burned my bridges before me. -- Dagmar Godowsky
I like to build bridges... not walls. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology. -- Elise M. Boulding
Should and would build no bridges. -Lini -- Robert Jordan
Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges. -- Harvey Mackay
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges. -- Rick Warren
Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them. -- Mason Cooley
Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line. -- Barack Obama
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. -- Drake
Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn. -- J. Cole
A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges. -- Roman Payne
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner. -- Sigourney Weaver
great men burn bridges before they come to them -- e. e. cummings
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. -- Vicente Fox
I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope. -- Ricky Martin
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. -- Rick Pitino
Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible. -- Paulo Coelho
Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. -- Gavin Bryars
Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them. -- Paulo Coelho
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges. -- Anatole France
Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines. -- Fred Thompson
I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed. -- Oprah Winfrey
Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. -- Jeanette Winterson
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. -- Eugene Chadbourne
My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls. -- Julian Castro
Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. -- Billy Graham
Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. -- Etheridge Knight
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. -- Marshall McLuhan
Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you. -- Janet Evanovich
Don't burn bridges, because you may have to walk over it one day. -- Heather Romiti
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. -- John Howe
Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges. -- Anatole France
Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future. -- Al Siebert
There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges. -- Paul Krugman
Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. -- Gladys Taber

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