Warren E. Burger Quotes
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!
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It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
