Burnie Burns Quotes
To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
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I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.
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I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
