Burton Cummings Quotes
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.
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Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
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When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
