Steven Burd (Steven A. Burd) Quotes
We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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Be generous! Give!
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
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Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.
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I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
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I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.
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I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
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We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
