Burt Shavitz Quotes

You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
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  • Now
  • Racing

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
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  • Rage

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
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  • Trying

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
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  • Time
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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Time
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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
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  • Action
  • Christian

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • American
  • Hand

• To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

  

  Ma Jun
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  • China
  • Pollution

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Run
  • Spoon

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
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  • She
  • Think

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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  • Distance
  • Busy

• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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  • Know
  • Building

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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  • Thinking
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• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
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  • Desire

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Work
  • Long
  • London

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
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  • True

• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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  • Said
  • Week

• An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

  

  bell hooks
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Criticism

• The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

  

  John Travolta
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  • Promise
  • Things Change

• He's had a great year this year. I wanted him to have an opportunity to be on the playoff roster and be successful.

  

  Phil Jackson
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  • Opportunity
  • Playoff

• A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
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  • Dream

• You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

  

  Burt Shavitz
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