Austin Farrer Quotes
One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
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I think I was making a Stephen Fearing record, and I mentioned to someone that the Tragically Hip were talking to me about working with them. The Canadians in the room couldn't believe it, as if the Beatles were getting back together again and asking me to produce them. I have to say, as an American, it's different; they're not exactly a national treasure here.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.
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I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.
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One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.
