Burnie Burns Quotes

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Myself

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • End

• In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Night

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Every book should have a romance.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Book

• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Long
  • Reading

• I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

  

  Brassaï
  • Reality
  • Imagine
  • Daily Life

• 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Amazing