Edwin Land Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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She has a fascination with Mayan prophecies, and she's writing a book that's sort of her remembrance of her past incarnation. Whatever she applies herself to, she makes it this beautiful, glorious world around her. All of us kids have always been artistic because of her influence.
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
