Augusten Burroughs Quotes

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Augusten Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildhoodChildNeverNormalLittle

We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.

Jill Stein

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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.

Angela Duckworth

PeopleThinkFindingYouSkillKnow

Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.

Mia Goth

MakeupActingNeverWearStarted

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

DesignYouBe NiceNiceRealOpen

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you're not constantly craving breakfast every second of every day, you're not a real American. Y'know what, let's throw the Canadians in there, too.

Rob Riggle

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When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

Mike McCready

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We didn't take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn't take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.

Michael McCaul

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Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

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In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Bobby Scott

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Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.

Anushka Shetty

VisionMeBelieveFollowDirector

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson

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