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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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
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The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
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Con men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.
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as long as it's across-the-board . . . so that everybody feels it equally.
