John Burnside Quotes
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
Quotes to Explore
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
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The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.
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Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
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The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
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If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
