Algis Budrys Quotes
There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
