Dan Poynter Quotes
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
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I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.
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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
