Burt Bacharach Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
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Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.
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For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
