Steven Burd (Steven A. Burd) Quotes

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Music
  • Wisdom

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
  • Fat

• How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Dog
  • Saying
  • Legs

• Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Moral

• I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • House
  • Never
  • Someone

• There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Self
  • Selfish

• The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Better
  • Fix

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People

• Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Born
  • Issue
  • Obama

• Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Power
  • Marriage

• What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

  

  Al Feldstein
  • Care
  • Brave
  • World War II

• People like to work for a winner.

  

  Steven Burd
  • People
  • Work
  • Winner