Brother Theodore Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I hate competition.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
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It's tough, don't get me wrong. You want to be there, and you wish you were there. But things change, and as players things change overnight, and you have to be aware of that.
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I hate art auctions.
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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
