Stuart Appleby Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.
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I wake up in the morning, all I think is flipCount a couple hundreds, flip a couple bricksTime to hit the plug now, need another flipCounting all this money, got me filthy rich
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Man must first live before he can live abundantly.
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
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When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
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Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
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I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.
