Burt Bacharach Quotes

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

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• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

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• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

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• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

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• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

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• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

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• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

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• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

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• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

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• Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

  

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• I like heels and make-up.

  

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• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

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• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  

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• Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

  

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• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

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• An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.

  

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• As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

  

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• My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!

  

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• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

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• A person can't just drive around the North Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a burger joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no churches.

  

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• I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

  

  Burt Bacharach
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