Barney Oliver Quotes
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.
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There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
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The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
