Burnett Hillman Streeter Quotes
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
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'If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.'
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.
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Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
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The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
