Burton Cummings Quotes
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
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My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
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It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
