Burt Lancaster Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D. W. Griffith -
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
Vijender Singh -
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman -
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Camille Paglia -
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Dan Gilbert -
'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
Victor Koo -
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller -
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
Cara Delevingne
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Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.
Charlie Chaplin -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
Alexander Scriabin -
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
Charles Jencks -
My brother never had me to dinner in his life.
Burt Lancaster