Dan Burton Quotes
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.
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You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
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So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
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The Justice Department didn't know anything about this.
