Steve Burns (Steven Michael Burns) Quotes
If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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Voltaire once said: 'Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man.' With those few words he captured the essence of a purpose in life: to work, to create, to excel, and to be concerned about the world and its affairs.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.
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If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
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You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
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To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
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People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.
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If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
