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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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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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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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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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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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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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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I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.
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My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.
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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
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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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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.
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I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
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Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
