Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I've been very lucky.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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We are here to make another world.
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
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To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
