Burt Shavitz Quotes

No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

Burt Shavitz

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Honor
  • Win
  • Fame

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Age

• I'm constantly hydrating my hair.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Hair
  • Constantly

• Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Women
  • Real
  • Moments

• Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hurt

• You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • You
  • Rich

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Parents
  • Same
  • Explore

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • God

• Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Friends
  • Wish

• If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • War
  • Nature

• She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'

  

  Laura Nyro
  • She
  • City

• Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Boat

• We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Live
  • Death

• There is no gardening without humility

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Humility
  • Gardening

• Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Truth
  • Philosophy
  • Conclusions

• In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Irrelevant
  • Flash

• There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Hats
  • Dilemma
  • Mercury

• No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

  

  Burt Shavitz