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Kitt Burroughs

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Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
ROBBIE COLTRANE
After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
This is the most intense week of preparation. Being here is important.
KITT BURROUGHS
It's getting word out enough to generate buzz and drum up enthusiasm.
KITT BURROUGHS
It's a fun way to learn business skills, and it's a trivia contest, so it adds an element of silline...
KITT BURROUGHS
The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.
MOLLY HARPER
I'm always trolling for trivia.
LYNN ABBEY
I'm always trolling for trivia.
LYNN ABBEY
Ross is a leader out there. He's being more verbal and that helps everyone.
DANIEL HOLMES
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your sta...
HARVEY MACKAY
Everybody is nervous, but we are a big family and everyone helps each other out.
KATLYN WATANUKI
He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of...
WILLIAM DANIELS
If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.'...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN
At the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., we have strength and conditioning staff but als...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
Trivia monologue. You are so the man for me.
MOLLY HARPER
Burroughs was a very political writer.
KATHY ACKER
The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT
Using this model, or something like it, helps to ease the load for everyone.
MINDY GRIBBLE
We're concerned about putting more duties on the professional staff, or putting them out there where...
DOUG MORRELL
I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.
DAMON ARCHIBALD
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and tri...
MAX LERNER
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and tri...
MAX LERNER
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...
RACHEL CARSON
It definitely helps out. You can go in and play hard for five minutes and not worry about getting ti...
LUKE ROGERS
I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.
ADAM RODRIGUEZ
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Low volume tends to exacerbate any moves, and I think on Friday everyone on Wall Street is going to ...
TOM SCHRADER
We've been doing this for about a year now. When you get to a certain age, this really helps you out...
EDWARD JOHNSON
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only ...
SETH GODIN
Some staff and many of our doctors use [the] BlackBerry, but I expect a white knight to ride in and ...
AL PORCO
Everyone has been generous, and every little bit helps,
DOUG MOORE
Open communications helps everyone on the team to more effectively execute what is expected, and adj...
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Perfected young girl inside of an equation for an imperfect place, Seamstressed only for the one wit...
ROSEMARIE YUSEN
During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live...
GREG A. MULLINS
There is no trivia in a strategic mind.
TOBA BETA
We have a lot of seniors, but those two sophomores have really played well for us. Everyone really p...
GEORGE HIGGINS
In previous years, we mailed out the pledge form to all faculty and staff. This year we personally h...
JAMES CONNEELY
I'm hoping that last year's success helps us and that the kids enjoy the coaching with the staff we ...
JOE DENSBERGER
Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.
MIKE TYSON
A little girl came up to me the other day and said, 'Do you live here?' ... I have a great staff tha...
DAVID GILMOUR
Everyone likes to see the library staff pushing carts. It's always amusing.
ANDREW PENDERGRASS
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Just about everyone wants to strike out on their own sometime. But they won't do it for the money --...
CYNTHIA MORGAN
I thought we came out and played with energy and enthusiasm. Once we got on the plane, it was over. ...
ED DECHELLIS
Everyone of us is a bit crazy,it's what helps us come out of hard times stronger than before, but no...
ANNICK LA-BRANCHE
In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
BARTON GELLMAN
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.
JOHN SUTHERLAND
It's not about her. Her athletes put out what they want and she helps them get there.
COREY BOSWORTH
We recognize on going education for staff is essential. We provide monthly in-services for staff on ...
JUDY WHEELER
My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B
I told Steve he won't be out the door. He could still be on the staff.
DALE MURRAY
It's important for kids to feel good about coming to school. It helps build pride in the school. I'm...
JOSEPH MOORE
'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when o...
LIANE MORIARTY
I had knee problems in high school and I think it helps having less pressure on it. And you just fee...
ANDY LAUNIER
Obviously, you don't want to miss out on that. It helps manage the financial risk.
JOE DONAHUE
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one bo...
ROBERT WILSON
Now we have two full courts inside of the gym. We can have the varsity and JV on one, the freshmen o...
KRIS GRUNDY
As soon as it's over, I look forward to it, can't wait for the next year. It's post-trivia depressio...
KATHY VENROOY
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
LYNN ABBEY
I think experience helps a lot out here. The greens have a lot of tendencies and subtle breaks. I've...
BOB EASTWOOD
A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps ...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI
For most of us, what we know about Germany we saw on TV. To see this in person helps us understand w...
DREW HENSON
I would like to thank everyone for coming out today for my official announcement on running for Stau...
ANDREA OAKES
It helps ? it helps with our expenses a whole lot. It helps us feed the poor ? that's what it's all ...
DON BECK
Everyone on the picket line who thought they could be out of a job for good will be out of a job for...
HARLEY SHAIKEN
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
ASKHARI JOHNSON HODARI
It helps everyone to navigate the community and encourages them to participate in civic activities.
ANA CRISTINA RUBIO
Offensively I was proud of the girls, as well as the pitching staff goes. We knew they had a great p...
JODI HERMANEK
We definitely have a target on our back. Starting out everyone should be gunning for us.
KAITLIN CAREY
So really there's no requirement for IT staff to be on site.
HOWARD RUBIN
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
This has been completely a team effort from the entire staff, students and parents. We've wanted to ...
HEATHER FISHER
They are high in fiber and most Americans don't get enough fiber. Fiber helps digestive health, help...
CAROL NEUMANN
When you can initiate plays like that, it says a lot. What Sa'D does helps the overall defense, help...
AVERY CUTSHAW
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH
The staff will be dressed in costume and everyone who comes is encouraged to do the same.
COLLEEN RYAN
Everyone on the picket line who thought they could be out of a
job for good will be out of a jo...
HARLEY SHAIKEN
He helps their team out immensely. He's been a top player for a long time.
EDDIE OLCZYK
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Sup...
CLIFFORD STOLL
It's good for Compaq at the margin, because it helps them fill out their product line, and it is goo...
ANDREW NEFF
We've not had a significant utilization of the chamber staff, ... But if I needed administrative hel...
DEAN STANLEY
Competition helps people figure it out.
BRIAN MCBRIDE
Jody helps us out a lot,
DAVID AYERS
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I'm real proud of our staff and health care providers for the way that everyone worked together to d...
GLENN MARTIN
I think it's a great chance (everyone will stay) because none of the people who have an opportunity ...
CHRIS RICHARD
There was not a nicer, friendlier person. He (Barnes) would hold a Christmas party put on by him and...
CRAIG SCHWALL
It's dreadful for the staff as well, ... I am furious about everything. Incandescent. We don't want ...
ROBIN BIRLEY
When you have to run that race or get out on that mat, you're the guy. Boy, that helps. That just he...
DAN SABERS
Everyone pitched in for us. To pull out a match on the road, a match that could easily have gone eit...
BEN BUCCA
There would be a trivia team and they'd send someone here to get food for everybody else so we had r...
KARA WEISBROAD
God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
I've got my head on straight. I'm not looking to just go out and pin everyone. I'm focused on winnin...
DARRION CALDWELL
It brings the throwing group together, because we have to depend on each other. Everyone else coming...
DREW MARTIN

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We lay that way for a while, breathing together, watching the shadows flicker over the walls and eac...
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She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing togeth...
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Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I was a street dancer.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci...
JOHN BURROUGHS
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many d...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
JOHN BURROUGHS
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I...
JOHN BURROUGHS
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the...
JOHN BURROUGHS
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
JOHN BURROUGHS
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things
JOHN BURROUGHS
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose
JOHN BURROUGHS
Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHS
You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."
JOHN BURROUGHS
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot b...
JOHN BURROUGHS
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
JOHN BURROUGHS
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
JOHN BURROUGHS
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the hi...
JOHN BURROUGHS
[Outside in the rain, paying punters appeared evenly divided between those there to see the bands an...
DAVID BURROUGHS