George Burns Quotes
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Patience is the secret to good food.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
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The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries-the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning-without ever being bound to look at anything.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.
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I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything - people will start twisting this - it is Rihanna's song! But I've always loved it.
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One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.
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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
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Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
