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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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
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As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'
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It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
