Pete Burns Quotes

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

Pete Burns

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Attitude
  • Teach
  • Him

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

  

  Ralph Nader

• I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Together
  • Nature

• Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Adventure

• Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Time

• Good service means never having to ask for anything.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Good
  • Service

• All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • Way
  • Inspiration

• When you move to L.A. or New York, it's easy to get a little lost and forget your original goal.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Lost

• It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Greatness

• No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Food

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Wish

• I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • School
  • War

• The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.

  

  Alice Paul

• In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Depression