Burgess Owens Quotes
There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen to be the best person for this job. Democrats need someone who can win. And there are two strategies for winning: You can energize the base, which is the strategy the party has used in the last couple of elections...unfortunately without success.Or you can energize and expand the base and bring the campaign to states where we've not had much success particularly in the heartland.
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I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
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There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
