Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay -
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.
Jack Youngblood -
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz -
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Kary Mullis -
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips
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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.
Adam Cohen -
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi -
I have never used steroids. Period.
Rafael Palmeiro -
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.
Victor LaValle -
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne Dyer
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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.
Beatrice Dalle -
I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
Vikas Swarup -
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.
Karen Abbott -
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!'
Parvesh Cheena -
There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
Sam Jaeger -
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the eighteenth century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
Randall Jarrell -
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain -
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
William Lyon Phelps -
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
Fred Saberhagen -
The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.
Albert Memmi -
I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.
Burt Lancaster