R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
I have always found, though I am unable to account for it, that daylight banishes many of the fears that are apt to assail us in the dark.
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I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.
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I photograph wealth.
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I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.
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I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.
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We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.
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So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
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Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!
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From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.
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Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.
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I don't consider genre while writing.
