George Burns Quotes
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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I'm a real optimist.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
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I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
