Cliff Burton Quotes

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Phone
  • iPad

• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worry

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Attention

• The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Political
  • Support
  • Powerful

• I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

  

  John Wayne
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
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  • Game
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