Rene Burri Quotes
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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America rules the world - by force.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?
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What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
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Can I pull out right eyes for Christ and cut off right hands, etc.?
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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
