Luther Burbank Quotes
When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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But I think we need the international market.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
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I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
