Augusten Burroughs Quotes

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Augusten Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1965

Topics

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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

Jillian Bach

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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Johannes Stark

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I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Joe Williams

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I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

Jeff Lemire

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I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.

John Tyler

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There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Tracey Ullman

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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Tom G. Palmer

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I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.

Mo Farah

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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Janis Ian

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My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Joseph Epstein

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The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Cindy Morgan

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The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

Chrystia Freeland

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