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 knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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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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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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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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It is still on the front burner. We really have to get the story right. The story has to be really good for any of us to do it, and there are three pretty strong-willed creative minds involved in saying yes.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
