Dan Burton Quotes
My colleagues on the other side of the aisle need to be patriots first and politicians second, patriots first and politicians second.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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My motto is: more good times.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
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One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.
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My colleagues on the other side of the aisle need to be patriots first and politicians second, patriots first and politicians second.
