Neel Burton Quotes
My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.
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Each episode follows an unbelievably spoiled rich and tiny sod as they prepare to throw a despicably opulent coming of age party for themselves and their squealing shitcake friends.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.
