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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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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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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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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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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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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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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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
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The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.
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You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.
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Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
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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?
