Allan James Burnett (A. J. Burnett) Quotes
I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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Coaches do get very nervous.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
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I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.
