George Burns Quotes

Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

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• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Interesting
  • Ideas
  • Roles

• I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stand

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movies
  • Watch
  • Over

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Business
  • Movies

• As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Boundaries

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Love
  • Professional
  • Tired

• I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • House
  • Day

• I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Party

• Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Software

• Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Weird
  • Watching
  • Grew

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

  

  Indira Varma
  • She
  • Actor
  • Emotions

• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  

  E. M. Forster

• The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • War
  • Cold

• I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • World
  • Mom
  • Powerful

• Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Death
  • Past

• I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Live
  • Chance

• One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Regret
  • Knowing

• Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  

  George Burns
  • Made
  • Fake
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