Burt Reynolds Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
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I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
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If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
