Edward Burns Quotes
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV.
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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.
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I don't know, it's odd that girls ask if they can hug me. Don't ask, do it. I'm just a regular guy.
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I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
