Burt Prelutsky Quotes
We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I'm curvy.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
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I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
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No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
