I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, 'You'll have three score years and ten,' and take a photograph every minute. 'And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.
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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
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The cancer project scales up to well over 100 Human Genome Projects.
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The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
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We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.
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I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
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You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay
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General Barker was a guy that was kind of larger than life.
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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
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