Basil W. Maturin Quotes
“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”
Basil W. Maturin
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
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I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.
Yeardley Smith
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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
Wilhelm Wundt
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For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
Chris Wedge
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The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
Dweezil Zappa
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“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”
Basil W. Maturin
