Burton Silverman Quotes

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Hell
  • Office
  • Box

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Nation
  • Mission
  • Doctor

• Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Life

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Mind
  • Period
  • Professional

• We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Value

• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  

  Brigham Young
  • True
  • Freedom

• I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Music
  • True
  • Period

• You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

  

  Brian J. Smith

• I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Great
  • Book

• I love a good steak. I like my meat. I love broccoli - it's one of my favorites - and corn, too. I mix it up with my vegetables.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Up
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• My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Money
  • Sorry

• 'Freedom' awakens your rage against everything that is not you; 'egoism' calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.

  

  Max Stirner
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Done
  • Period

• I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • America
  • Force

• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

  

  Burton Silverman
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