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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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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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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I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.
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I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
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War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
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I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.
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A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got to use that to your advantage. You've got to use that nervous energy and pull it into your performance’. And, I'd never thought of that before.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
