Conrad Burns Quotes

In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.

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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Learn
  • Rich
  • Cost

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Man
  • Parents
  • Woman

• My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Kind
  • Wife
  • Generous

• My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • College
  • Thought

• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • God
  • Country
  • Truth

• I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Nothing
  • Misunderstood

• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Laughing

• What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Done

• My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

  

  Dadá Maravilha
  • Football
  • Technique
  • Shooting

• People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

  

  Melanie Griffith
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

  

  John Connolly
  • Nature

• In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.

  

  Conrad Burns
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