Burnie Burns Quotes
I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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I like to do Pilates.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
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I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
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I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
