Burton Cummings Quotes
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.
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Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.
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I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
