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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Value
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Nuclear Power

• I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Felt
  • Uncomfortable
  • Cliques

• I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Christian

• I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Love
  • Acting
  • More

• I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Tea
  • Serve
  • Clean

• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  

  Gale Norton
  • Why
  • Government
  • Environment

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• 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.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Shy
  • Scale
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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.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Society
  • Change
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  

  John Milton
  • Nature
  • WIld
  • Abyss

• But he will have his memories, Lance - long after we've forgotten him.

  

  Alice Evans
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Forgotten

• The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Country
  • Citizen
  • Knees

• I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying

• The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

  

  Denis Parsons Burkitt
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  • Disease
  • Ancestors