Burnie Burns Quotes
We didn't join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.
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We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
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We didn't join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube.
