Burton Silverman Quotes
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
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If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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I have a huge impact with young girls. Young women. That's my demographic.
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When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.
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I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.
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My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.
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By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
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My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.
