Allan James Burnett (A. J. Burnett) Quotes
Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
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Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
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If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
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It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
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The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.
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For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.
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Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
