Burning Buildings Quotes

• Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Cocky, Saving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

  Mason Cooley

  Burning, Limits, Building

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• Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

  Paulo Freire

  Burning, Building, Treats

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

  Steve Buscemi

  Jobs, Theatre, Acting

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• It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from a biological point of view. But why is it that some people will jump into a freezing river and swim out to a downed plane for total strangers? What is that about? And it seems to be that it's part of your concept of who you are. That's why some people run into the burning buildings, because if they don't, their concept of who they are will be violated. They wouldn't be who they thought they were.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Rivers, Views

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Cat, Burning, Vegetarian

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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Horse, Children, War

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• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

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• I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Burning, Nightfall, Building

  1969 On muggings in Manhattan. In the Washington Post, 26 Feb.

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• I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

  Channing Tatum

  Grandpa, One Day, Burning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.

  Bill Crawford

  Stress, Successful, Frustration

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• If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Goal, People, Firefighter

  Brian D. McLaren (2008). “Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

  Frank Hubbard

  Girl, Thinking, Ballet

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• Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

  Julian Fellowes

  Christmas, Character, Car

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

  William Hague

  Country, Burning, Exit

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• Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Running, People, Brave

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• I am a fairly physical guy I stay in shape and do a lot of karate and that kind of stuff. I prefer to do my own stunts if it's possible. I'm not jumping off burning buildings or something, but rolling around and getting knocked down and stuff like that I get a kick out of.

  Nick Damici

  Jumping, Guy, Rolling

  "Interview with Late Phases: Night of the Wolf star Nick Damici". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 17, 2015.

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• The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

  John Vianney

  Baby, Forgiving, Burning

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• Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

  Woody Allen

  Play, Burning, Literature

  "Bullets Over Broadway". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

  Bill Maher

  Night, Men, White

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• I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

  Christian Slater

  Running, Baby, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Running, Stupid

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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