Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
