Richard Burr quote: "We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts."

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies ...
RICHARD BURR

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfu...
RICHARD BURR

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.
RICHARD BURR

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
RICHARD BURR

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that ap...
RICHARD BURR

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working...
RICHARD BURR

There is a challenge in North Carolina ... to some of the most rural areas trying to piece together ...
RICHARD BURR

They are the difference between (local) care and going for a lengthy drive, ... The challenge is how...
RICHARD BURR

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature actio...
AARON BURR

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR

Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your...
AARON BURR

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best ...
AARON BURR

Go West, young man.
AARON BURR

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years...
RAYMOND BURR

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate...
CHANDLER BURR

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best t...
AARON BURR

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
AARON BURR

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't jus...
BILL BURR

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometim...
BILL BURR

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, becau...
BILL BURR

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying...
BILL BURR

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I'v...
BILL BURR

Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books ...
BILL BURR

By the time we start in November, we're in mid-season form. My freshman year, we didn't do any of th...
ANDI BURR

If any team is going to do it, it's our team. We play hard together, we get along and we have great ...
ANDI BURR

We don't want it to be that way, it just sort of happens. I think we have it in us to play like that...
ANDI BURR

We want a winning record. That's never been done here before and I think we're definitely going to d...
ANDI BURR

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man...
RAYMOND BURR

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost ...
RAYMOND BURR

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
AMELIA BURR

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?'...
RAYMOND BURR

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she...
RAYMOND BURR

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to ...
BILL BURR

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you do...
BILL BURR

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.
BILL BURR

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.
RAYMOND BURR

I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself ha...
RAYMOND BURR

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
BILL BURR

It's not until you're an adult you appreciate how awesome a dog is. Your dreams start dying, somebod...
BILL BURR

He was the worst farmer of anyone I ever knew.
BURR UDALL

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to...
BILL BURR

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, th...
BILL BURR

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if ...
BILL BURR

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'...
BILL BURR

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place...
BILL BURR

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#...
BILL BURR

I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, a...
BILL BURR

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get t...
BILL BURR

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you...
BILL BURR

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what...
BILL BURR

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
BILL BURR

My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is...
BILL BURR

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
BILL BURR

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can'...
BILL BURR

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place...
BILL BURR

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting mys...
BILL BURR

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju...
BILL BURR

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
AARON BURR

It was a lot of fun.
MATT BURR

We used clay from here in New Mexico and used engineering principals to design a mug that could surv...
MATT BURR

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.
DAVID BURR GERRARD

Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until...
DAVID BURR GERRARD

You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire-- No milk and ...
AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR

It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually ho...
DAVID BURR GERRARD

Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it,...
DAVID BURR GERRARD

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL

When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL

This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL

The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL

These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL

MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL

...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER

Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER

I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

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