Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others
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It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
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A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
