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Burton Cummings Quotes

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Burton Cummings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 31, 1947

Topics

Life Lived Monk Buddhist Certainly

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Joe R. Lansdale

Style Me Metaphor Ray Importance

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

John B. S. Haldane

Words Thought Better Emotion Symbols

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Culture People Potential Gender Find

I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I like everything sorted by colors, even the shoes. It's important to know exactly where everything is when you walk into the closet.

Love Shoes Walk Colors You Know

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

Apple Started Working Months After

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Experience Will Rule Who Axiom Ages

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

Birthday Cake Chocolate Find Never

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

Daughter Shoes Pizza Deep You Gym

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Change Freedom You Play Difficult

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.

Women Look Bad Right Against Us

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

Relationship Myself Hero City World

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Writing Thinking Sustainable

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