Amby Burfoot Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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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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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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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
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Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.
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I grew up surfing on the north coast of New South Wales, and on most of the beaches, women never wore tops. When we were 10 or 11, me and my mates couldn't drive, so they'd take us surfing and then sit on the beach topless and read a book. I don't know if I quite saw them sexually, but there was physical intrigue.
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When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
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I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
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In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.
