Chris Burkard Quotes
In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.
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I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
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Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?
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The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
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In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.
