Burt Shavitz Quotes

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

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• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• Words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Communication

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Perception

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Important
  • Children
  • Society

• I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Power
  • More

• Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Rest
  • Treat

• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Company
  • Products

• The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Victory

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

  

  Larry Wall

• If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Atheist

• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Tombstone

• Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Destruction
  • Transform

• What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Way
  • Human
  • Intelligence

• What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

  

  Burt Shavitz