Arthur David Ritchie Quotes
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
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I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
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Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
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I think the goal is always to go deeper within myself, and accept myself on deeper levels and to know myself on deeper levels. Whether or not I look for roles that are going to do that for me, I certainly look for the ways in which the roles I get can do that for me.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
