Kate Burridge Quotes

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

Kate Burridge

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• 'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fight

• Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Woman
  • I Love

• If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People

• Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Career
  • Player

• This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Business
  • America
  • True

• I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Donatella Versace

• You have to make sure you have a relatable emotion through the movie. You have to check your ego and go into a territory and recognize that nobody knows you. You go back again and again, and by the third time, you are a star.

  

  James Lassiter
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Immigration

• I love to collect modern art.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Art

• I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

  

  Jason Moran
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • December
  • November

• This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.

  

  James Carville

• I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • People

• And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

  

  Plato
  • Doctors
  • Diseases
  • Cesspools

• All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

  

  Kate Burridge
  • Different
  • Humans
  • Distress