Ursula Burns Quotes
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I want the single player experience.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
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Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
