Dean Burk Quotes
When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.
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He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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We'll be raising our hands Shining up to the sky Cause we've got the fire fire fire And we gonna let it burn
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
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When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.
