Burt Bacharach Quotes
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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pp. 7-8
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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
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The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.
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The fundamental imperative about idolatry was that worship was not to be paid to any created thing such as a messenger, a planet, a star, one of the four elements, or to anything produced from them.
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It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.
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How many lives we live in one,And how much less than one, in all.
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
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Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.
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When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
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I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
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The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
