Bruce Barton Quotes
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Quotes to Explore
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
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When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time.
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It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you think, 'Who am I?
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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
