Burgess Owens Quotes

I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.

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• My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

  

  Lake Bell
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• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
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• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

  

  Barry Larkin
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• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  

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• If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

  

  Karl Marx

• It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.

  

  Irene Dunne

• But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed. Every constituency in the Union is wronged.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
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• I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and - I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
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• I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
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• Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

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• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
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• Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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• I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
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• The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

  

  Lucy Powell

• When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
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• I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.

  

  Burgess Owens