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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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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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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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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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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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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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 love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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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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The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
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Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
