Delta Burke Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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If Iraq collapses in chaos and civil war, there will be a ferocious fight in this country over who misled us and who may have lied us, into war. Into the dock will go the neoconservatives whose class project this was.
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The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
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I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.
