Bernd Heinrich Quotes
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
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Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!
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The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
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The broad use of state in Hegelese presents translation problems. Marx’s early formulations, in the Hegelian spirit, often come close to counterposing the state concept (the ideal state) against what we would now understand by the term.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far.
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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
