Burton Cummings Quotes
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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But liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. It is the realization of those imperishable truths of the Declaration 'that all men are created equal', that the sanction of all just government is 'the consent of the governed'. Can these truths be realized until each man has a right be to heard on all matters relating to himself?
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A lot of my inspiration is what straight-size women wear - why is there a disconnect from what they wear and what we can wear?
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I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in life. If you're doing something, and you have a desire to do something different, give it a try.
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As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
