Amby Burfoot Quotes
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann -
No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
M. H. Abrams -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael -
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt -
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal -
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
Irene Rosenfeld
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
Edgar Wright -
It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. Schumacher -
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
Victoria Smurfit -
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
Barry Ritholtz -
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells
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The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.
Penelope Ann Miller -
I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.
William Howard Taft -
Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.
Jack Keane -
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Madame Roland -
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
Charles James -
If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.
Amby Burfoot