Burgess Owens Quotes

I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.

Burgess Owens

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In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

Jhonen Vasquez

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Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

Mel Robbins

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As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

John Landgraf

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For friends, I love to make bruschetta. I grill country bread with Frantoia olive oil and make toppings, like crab, roasted squash, mushrooms, whatever's seasonal.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

Rumaan Alam

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It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

Judy Greer

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The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

Joseph Brant

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Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Jon Meacham

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Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

Diplo

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I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

Diane Ladd

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When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

Colin Jost

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Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Bob Filner

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