B. J. Palmer Quotes
When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Everything inspires me, but when it comes to chemistry, and when it comes to the ups and downs of relationships, that's what's real for people.
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I have played a few lay saints in my time.
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Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
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We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.
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Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.
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When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.
