Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.
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Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
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Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
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I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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As far as romancing and catering to the women, I'm definitely here for all that.
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.
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I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.
