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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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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The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
