Captain Beefheart Quotes
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.'
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
