Burt Reynolds Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who wishes to attract praise to his style, resemble the soldier who plumes himself on his unif onn but refuses to go into battle, or the farmer who polishes the ploughshare instead of driving it into the earth.
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I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
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I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
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If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.
