Dan Burt Quotes

When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.

Dan Burt

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Office
  • Medicine
  • Alchemy

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Age
  • Inspiration

• They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a slam, and I did it.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • World
  • Great
  • Dream

• Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • World
  • Long
  • Heart

• Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Everything
  • Try
  • Now

• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Year
  • Prove

• When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.

  

  Dan Burt
  • World
  • School
  • Care