Burgess Owens Quotes

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

Burgess Owens

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• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

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• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

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• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

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• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

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• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

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• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

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• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  

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• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

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• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

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• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

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• I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

  

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• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  

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• I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.

  

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• And I hope that everybody who loves this city will put aside party differences to try in the making of Greater London greater still. Let's get cracking tomorrow and let's have a drink tonight.

  

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• Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

  

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• If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

  

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• My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • American
  • Black
  • Dad