Neel Burton Quotes
Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.
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Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
