Gelett Burgess Quotes
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:
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Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'
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What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
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Acting in Los Angeles can be very isolating because you either have a job or you don't have a job - and if you don't have a job, it's all about getting out of your house. It sucks to sit around waiting. That's death.
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there are no roads in all Bohemia !