Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.
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Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.
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'...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.'
