George Burns Quotes
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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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.
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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?'
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Women just love to shop.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
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Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.
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Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.
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I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
