Bobby Burgess Quotes
My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.
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Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
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My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.
