Ben Burtt Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.
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True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
