David Burnett Quotes
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
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Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
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Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
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When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
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I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.
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The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.
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Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
