Burt Shavitz Quotes

I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

Burt Shavitz

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• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • You
  • Celebrate

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Responsibility
  • Push

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Artist
  • White

• God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Service
  • Voice

• I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Record

• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Maybe

• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Government

• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Discipline

• I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Good
  • Color
  • Red

• Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Live
  • Responsibility
  • Talk

• I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Great

• If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Choices
  • Decisions
  • Judgments

• I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

  

  Burt Shavitz