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.

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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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Many people are insecure of many people.
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A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.
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I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
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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.