Bobby Burgess Quotes

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

Bobby Burgess

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Free
  • Hand

• I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Growth
  • Golf

• 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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Peace

• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Jokes
  • Stolen
  • References

• 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.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Cancer
  • Medical
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Done

• I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fun

• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Events
  • Europe

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Think
  • Picture

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Money
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Me
  • Gay
  • Laugh

• It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Trying
  • Car
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Present
  • Special
  • Cultures

• The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Fear

• Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Imagination

• Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Innocent

• The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Personality

• I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heaven
  • I Love
  • Confess

• My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

  

  Bobby Burgess
  • Enjoy
  • Teaching
  • Dancers