John Burdett Quotes

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Name

• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
  • Dangerous
  • Lighthouse

• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • World
  • Nature
  • You

• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Power
  • Together

• Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

  

  Alex Gibney

• In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

  

  George Gershwin
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Father
  • Wall
  • Library

• To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

  

  John Burdett
  • Mind