Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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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!
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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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.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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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.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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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.
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The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls,Devoured her with their eager, passionate gaze;But looking at her falsely-smiling face,I knew her self was not in that strange place.
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We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don’t take our trips on LSD We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like living right and being free.
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
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I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.
Colson Whitehead -
I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
