John Burns Quotes
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.
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These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
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You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
