Augusten Burroughs Quotes
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
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For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
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I have a knife collection.
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What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.
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I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.
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In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
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My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
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The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
