Ben Burtt Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
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.
Taya Kyle -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde -
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!
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Gary Sherman
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco -
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.
Barney Frank -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Cavour -
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.
Safra A. Catz -
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.
Natalie Goldberg
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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.
Walter Pater -
I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
Yakov Smirnoff -
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman -
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty -
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
Kate Winslet
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
Yitzhak Navon -
I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.
Maude Adams -
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman -
The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability.
Allan Savory -
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
Ben Burtt