Burton Cummings Quotes
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq.
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Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.