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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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.
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The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play.
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The Jewish people have to get rid of their fears so they see the positive things and they need to dare to look at the world through their Judaism.
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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.
