Burt Lancaster Quotes
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I work very hard at my game.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.
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I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
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Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.