Burton Cummings Quotes
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
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I live to feel myself in danger.
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You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
