Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
People would say, 'You can't say negative things about the company.' But you have no credibility if you can't tell people that they need to do better.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.
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The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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People would say, 'You can't say negative things about the company.' But you have no credibility if you can't tell people that they need to do better.
