Dan Burt Quotes
The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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I've never been interested in celebrity.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.
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It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
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A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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The more info I read, the more the Rock & Roll hall of fame seems anti-rock. Rock was not meant to be judged by panels of old people.
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Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time-but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.
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The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
