Chris Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.
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Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
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I learned French before I learned Spanish.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
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It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
