Amby Burfoot Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
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Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.
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You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
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Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
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Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.
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Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.
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I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.
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I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
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In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.
