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.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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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?
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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.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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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.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
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It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
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'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.
