Burt Bacharach Quotes
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach
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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.
Sade Adu
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine Albright
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
Vanna White
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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.
Ozwald Boateng
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Irving Babbitt
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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
Barack Obama
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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.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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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.
Maimonides
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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.
Edward Sapir
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How many lives we live in one,And how much less than one, in all.
Alice Cary
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Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.
George C. Wolfe
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The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.
Michael J. Massimino
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.
Albert Einstein
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
Seth Godin
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Alan Paton
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach
