Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.
Steve Burke
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
Nas
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
Jack Kornfield
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
Natasha Trethewey
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
Ram Charan
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I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
Iain De Caestecker
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I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
Aaron Patzer
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I love football.
Kaitlin Olson
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
T. S. Eliot
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
Irene Dunne
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While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.
Ryoko Tani
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
Octavio Paz
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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
Cheryl Strayed
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We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.
Austin Phelps
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I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.
Steve Burke
