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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Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.
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Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.
