Ian Burden (Ian Charles Burden) Quotes
Everyone involved was surprised. We all liked what we’d done, but had no idea it would become so widely enjoyed.
Ian Burden
The Human League
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
Kamala Harris
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Rachel Maddow
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
Kate Klise
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
Natalie Wood
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
Zach Galifianakis
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
Abigail Disney
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
Ingmar Bergman
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
Edie Brickell
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'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'
Harper Lee
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If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.
Barack Obama
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I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.
Charlie Cox
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My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.
Billy Crystal
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My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.
Max von Essen
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What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.
Dinesh D'Souza
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As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.
Bruce Smith
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He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.
J. C. Ryle
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Everyone involved was surprised. We all liked what we’d done, but had no idea it would become so widely enjoyed.
Ian Burden
The Human League
