Nicolas Bentley Quotes
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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If you should ever leave me Though life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would livin' do me God only knows what I'd be without you…
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Your life is worth much more than gold.
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All that counts in life is intention.
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My life was very Japanese.
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
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Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.
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This is the chance to fulfill a dream.
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One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
