John Burns Quotes

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

John Burns

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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Me

• As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Business
  • Man

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • You
  • More
  • Temptation

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Women
  • Attention

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

  

  EMA
  • Show
  • Performance
  • Frustrated

• There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • France
  • Camps
  • Ten

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Anger

• What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Men
  • Ivory
  • Primitive Man

• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

  

  John Burns
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Judge