William Chalmers Burns Quotes
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
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I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
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Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.
