Amby Burfoot Quotes
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.
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I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.
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We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.
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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
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Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don't have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we're doing it in a thoughtful way that's thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we're going to have against jihadists.
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Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few.
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Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
