James Lee Burke Quotes
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
Quotes to Explore
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
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Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.
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I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.
