Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
