Ellen Burstyn Quotes
I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
Quotes to Explore
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
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I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
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He knew what the press and the fans and the kids expected of him, and he was always trying to live up to that image. That's why he couldn't be silly in public like I could, or ever be caught without his shirt buttoned or his shoes shined. He knew he was Joe DiMaggio and he knew what that meant to the country.
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
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The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
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Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
