Albert Allen Bartlett Quotes
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
