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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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 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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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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I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
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The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
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And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
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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.
