Burt Bacharach Quotes

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Actor
  • First
  • Trained

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Think
  • Attention

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • English
  • Understand
  • Learned

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Why
  • Painting

• The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Two
  • Organic
  • Compounds

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Hollywood
  • Joke
  • Naked

• I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

  

  David Leitch
  • Important
  • Fall
  • Challenge

• When you create advertising, always start with the words.

  

  George Lois
  • Words

• I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Small
  • Football