Frank Herbert Quotes
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
