I am not a big reader to begin with.


Billy Burke

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Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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You're a stalker with hooves."
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my h...
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I am not a big facial person. But I do love a body scrub.
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle.
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EVAN MCMULLIN
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KEVIN HART
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
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I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
SUZE ORMAN
I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.
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I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.
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KAREN ENGLAND
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
ZOSIA MAMET
A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
GERARD DE MARIGNY
You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.
PATRICE BERGERON
(Davis) tried to overthrow a breaking ball (to Burke) and he hung it.
NED YOST
I am a daily reader of the Centre Daily Times online every day from the beautiful island of Maui,
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JAMES CORNISH
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I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.
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CHAD BEGUELIN
I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER
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ROBERT WEBB
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.
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I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books th...
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
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I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy.
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Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But...
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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu...
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The balance of power.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Dignity belongs to the conquered.
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EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE