Augusten Burroughs Quotes
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Fashion is one big family.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.
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I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
