Bela H. Banathy Quotes
We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
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I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.
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Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .
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I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.
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We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.
