Burgess Owens Quotes
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Justice is revenge.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.
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The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
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Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
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That's what Democrats do best: breed black votes.
