John Burns Quotes
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
Quotes to Explore
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
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Nelson, to Annabelle 'The misery of the world,' he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. 'That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up...'
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
