David D. Burns Quotes
I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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Language is froth on the surface of thought.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.
