George Burns Quotes
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Quotes to Explore
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. Skinner
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
Natalie Coughlin
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
Larry Fitzgerald
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Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
Sam Trammell
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
K. Flay
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
Carine Roitfeld
