Steven Burd (Steven A. Burd) Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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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.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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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.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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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.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
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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.
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.
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People like to work for a winner.
