Denis Parsons Burkitt Quotes
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
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On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.
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It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.
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I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.
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My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.
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...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
