John Burdett Quotes
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
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We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Before anything else Numa decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.
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As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
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Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
