#ken

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#disposition #improve #preserve #standard #statesman

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#angel #basis #blue #called #club

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot. ↗

— Edward Burns

#chances #few #go #head #i

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#being #con #i #outspoken #pro

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#already #basis #difference #different #each

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? ↗

— George W. Bush

#any #attacks #bust #country #course

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do. ↗

— George W. Bush

#angry #every #every time #feeling #find

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog! ↗

— Sophia Bush

#ball games #beer #care #dog #dorky