Chris Burkard Quotes
In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

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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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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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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.