John Dykstra Quotes

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

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• As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

  

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• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

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• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

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• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

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• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

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• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  

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• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

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• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

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• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

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• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

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• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  

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• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

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• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

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• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

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• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

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• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  

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• Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

  

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• The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

  

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• I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?

  

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• True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

  

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• Consider fully, act decisively.

  

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• George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

  

  John Dykstra
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