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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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.
Ira Glass
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
Rachel Platten -
We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers -
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford -
My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
Randeep Hooda -
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
Ben Burtt