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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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'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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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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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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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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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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I learned more in my garden than I did in any classroom.
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God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
