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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• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• 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!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• 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.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Rights
  • Estate
  • Requests

• 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.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Paris

• 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
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Difference
  • Learned
  • Well

• It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

  

  Vanna White
  • World
  • Job
  • Know

• 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
  • Job
  • Old
  • Interview

• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Him
  • Agree
  • Few

• 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
  • Life
  • Man
  • Genius

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  Irving Babbitt

• As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History

• 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
  • People
  • Poverty

• 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
  • Star

• 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
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Power

• How many lives we live in one,And how much less than one, in all.

  

  Alice Cary
  • Live

• I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Believe
  • Brother

• I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Brother
  • Child
  • Friendship

• I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Mistake

• To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Job
  • Famous

• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  

  Burt Bacharach