"When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?"
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"There's a bridge to tomorrow, There's a bridge to the past."
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"Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building."
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"Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them."
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"I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era."
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"The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community."
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"Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined."
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"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."
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"It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples."
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"It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge."
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"Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge."
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"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
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"Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas."
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"One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying."
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"Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost."
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"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief."
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"Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time."
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"Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman."
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"Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better."
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"When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you."
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