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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
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"The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time."
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"Dean Martin is one of my heroes."
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"I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."I feel so wanted. Thanks."
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"No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk."
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"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."
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"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."
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"I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes."
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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
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"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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"I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
Heroes
"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
Law
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
Time
"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
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"And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth."
Day
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
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"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
Thought
"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
Music
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
Religion
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