John Burnside Quotes
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
John Burnside
Quotes to Explore
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
Malik Jackson
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
Hannah Ware
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
Sadie Frost
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
Dana Torres
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
Sam Kean
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According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
Preston Sturges
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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again.
John F. Kennedy
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'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
Anton Chekhov
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As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
John Burnside
