Burden Quotes - Page 25

• I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Summer, Paper, Milk

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• Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

  Clay Shirky

  Law, Easier, Process

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• When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Cutting

  "Dividend Voodoo". Article by Warren Buffett, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2003.

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• We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chodron, billmoyers.com. December 24, 1996.

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• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  John Roberts

  Bears, Imperialism, Share

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• And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Sacrifice, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes writing more difficult. That may not be the case for everyone - I know plenty of writers and artists who seem to have energy in abundance for all the facets of life; but are they producing anything worthwhile?

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Responsibility, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Criticism, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This country has a vast manufacturing base. It is growing in manufacturing where America is shrinking and it's because they have reduced taxes and lower regulatory burdens and been pro-business.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, America, Example

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.

  Amanda Peet

  Kids, Want, Kind

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you want a candidate who is led the fight against Obamacare, who will lift the burdens on small businesses and bring back jobs, I'm the only candidate in the race with that proven record.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Fighting, Race

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Community, Church

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• People thought they were going to make a lot of money. And then at one point, it got too hot, and the government wanted to knock it down. Trying to get it up and then knock it down, both were a mistake. And part of the reason, some people think, is that they wanted to equitize some of their companies. A healthy stock market helps equitize companies and reduce the country's debt burden.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province.

  Christy Clark

  Issues, Citizens, Conscious

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

  T. J. Miller

  Bears, Blame

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

  Lori Lansens

  Epidemics, Issues, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.

  Sarah Silverman

  Remember, Felt, Sobbing

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Fall, Government, People

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• I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Truth, Thinking, Views

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• I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Keys, Race, Dollars

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, People, Faces

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

  Andrew Solomon

  Brother, Gay, Sister In Law

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

  Colin Powell

  Hussein, Regimes, Should

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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