John Burnside Quotes
What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
Quotes to Explore
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
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I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example.
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My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
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If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.
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Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world. And the truth is, I don’t have to.
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What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
