David Burtka Quotes
The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
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People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.
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What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
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The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.
