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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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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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
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I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
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People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!
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Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!
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Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
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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.
