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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No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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I did something wrong - once.
