Burt Lancaster Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.
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I did something wrong - once.
