John Boyd Orr Quotes
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
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I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
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However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
