Denis Parsons Burkitt Quotes
If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
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I lost my confidence.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
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Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.
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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
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I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
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That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.
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I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.
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For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.
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My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
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If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.
