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Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

Augusten Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Advertising You Know Years Pretty

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.

Money Job Parents Me Think Back

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.

Stephanie Coontz

Goals Marriage People Free Feel

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

Steven Spielberg

People Story Crime Responsible Own

Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.

World Strategy Result Infinite Niche

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Great Party Canada Over Apartment

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

Love I Am People Sympathy Sorry You

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Religion Worry Done More Organized

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

Think Someone You Want Disappoint

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

Dominic Holland

Comedy Doing Over Years Kids How

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Doing Worth Whatever Well

We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what's there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.

Technology People Challenges Help

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

Pharrell Williams

Doing Trying Find New More Up

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