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 cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
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He is lucky who, in the full tide of life, has experienced a measure of the active environment he most desires. In these days of upheaval and violent change, when the basic values of to-day are the vain and shattered dreams of to-morrow, there is much to be said for a philosophy which aims at living a full life while the opportunity offers. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experience of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
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When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
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Proactive people carry their own weather with them.
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If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
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Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
