Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
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With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
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I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.
