Susan Burton Quotes
There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
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If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.
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Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
