Edmund Burke Quotes

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Edmund Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

Topics

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On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Jessica Sanchez

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We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.

John C. Mather

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Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

Jenna Fischer

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And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

John Hickenlooper

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Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Tom Stoppard

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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Robert Caro

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One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

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The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Mindy Cohn

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What greater insult can you give God than to take your own life?

David Thibodeau

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Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

Clayton M. Christensen

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What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

Peter Landesman

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I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Seann William Scott

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