Burnie Burns Quotes
We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
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The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.
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America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
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We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.
