Nicole Burnham Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
-
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
-
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
-
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
-
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
-
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
-
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
-
I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
-
I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
-
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
-
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
-
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
-
We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
-
There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
-
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
-
Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.
-
I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.
-
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.
-
We joke that St. Louis people love their own.
-
When I exercise regularly, my writing flow improves.
