David Burnett Quotes
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
Quotes to Explore
-
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
-
Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
-
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
-
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
-
I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
-
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.
-
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.
-
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
-
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
-
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.
-
Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
-
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
-
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
-
I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
-
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.
-
I don't give players a chance to hit me.
-
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
-
A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
-
Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.
-
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
