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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I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
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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.
