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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.
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