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Richard Burton Quotes

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: November 10, 1925 - August 5, 1984

Topics

Sea Wings Look Without Little Large

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Jimmy Carl Black

Work Together Strike Him Out Own

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Good People You Teach Tell Kids

I grew up in Boston in a very, very, very Marine town. So back in my neighborhood in Boston, a working-class neighborhood, when you got your draft notice, you went down, and you took your draft physical. And then, if you passed it, you joined the Marine Corps.

You Back Down Marine Corps Boston

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

Andrea Riseborough

Voice Weird Enjoy Done My Own Never

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

Change Ice Forever Four Minutes

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

Music Myself School High School High

I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

Sunday Party Person Stay Much

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Marriage God Unique Place Chosen

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Work Hard Work Integrity Great Job

I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.

Heart Believe Place Hard Right Very

I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

Technology God Power Think See Been

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

People College America True Strange

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