Bobby Burgess Quotes
My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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God helps those who fear Him.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
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Everybody should customize their names.
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I wanted the kids to enjoy the atmosphere. It was intense.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.
