Simon McBurney Quotes
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
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If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
