Burgess Owens Quotes
We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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I shop more than most women.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
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I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!
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We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.
