Burgess Owens Quotes
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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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The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
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I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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That's what Democrats do best: breed black votes.
