Tim Burton Quotes

To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do things.

Tim Burton

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OpportunitiesWhateverHonestThings

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

Jessye Norman

LoveMorningJoyNew YorkChild

I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

Jiah Khan

LongPlayGoWantWayLong Way

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Robert McCloskey

ChildrenWorldWeekLettersStreet

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

Stanley A. McChrystal

PoliticsEasyTryClearSteer

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Mary Lambert

MusicPeopleSomeoneAccomplishWant

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

LiveGodPowerChildrenManLaw

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Diane Paulus

CulturePeopleBlameBuildingThink

After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

Pete Hoekstra

IntelligenceValueFaceCongressUs

I only work with people that are mysteries.

Sharon Van Etten

WorkPeopleOnlyMysteries

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

FoolYourselfYouPersonFirstMust

The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space.

Nikki Glaser

MyselfMomentBestSpaceInteresting

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

Reza Aslan

NationalismYouReligiousSuppress

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