Billy Burke Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
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What is art? Prostitution.
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People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
