Amby Burfoot Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
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I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
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Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
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You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
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As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
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Don't judge your running by your speed.
