Burton Cummings Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
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Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.
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I love the finer things.
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I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.
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I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.
