George Burns Quotes
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Respect the burden.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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My whole being and approach to work is shaped by Karan Johar. From him, I have learned that people should love to work with you, and you should give out warmth and energy to them.
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We are the choices we make.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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I would never betray the people.
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Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
