Baden Powell Quotes
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
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Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
