Burt Lancaster Quotes

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Burt Lancaster

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• You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • You
  • Know
  • Mark

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Father
  • Think

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Single

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • Enough
  • Divine

• I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Water

• In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Long
  • Country
  • House

• I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Right
  • Perfectionist

• It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Interesting
  • Cutting
  • Touch

• The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • World
  • God

• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Weird

• Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Life

• The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Desire

• I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

  

  Burt Lancaster