Saffron Burrows Quotes
I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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My health is fine.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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We had moved cross-country from upstate New York to Kansas in the heat wave of 1980, with two cars, no air-conditioning, and a black dog. I can still see the infernal temperature of a hundred and nineteen degrees on a bank sign somewhere near Ohio.
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If you want to be alive, you can’t avoid pain.
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The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
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Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
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I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.
