E. B. White Quotes
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.
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I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
