Burt Shavitz Quotes
My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
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Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
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As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.
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I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.
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My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
