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.
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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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But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
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'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'
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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.
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Where dance is, there is the devil.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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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.
