Dan Burton Quotes
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.
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Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
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as long as it's across-the-board . . . so that everybody feels it equally.
