Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.
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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
