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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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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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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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
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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...
