Burnie Burns Quotes
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
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But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
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If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.
