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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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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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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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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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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Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.
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As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be. And I do think, over the years, I've developed a need for control.
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
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We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
