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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I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
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The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
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I did something wrong - once.
