Burt Lancaster Quotes

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

Burt Lancaster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994

Topics

MoreCommitteeAnythingThan

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Jerrold Nadler

DieYearBecauseEach YearEach

A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.

John Gregory Dunne

WindowWhateverOutsiderSideNose

It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

Ann Demeulemeester

WorkBeautifulPeopleNeverWithout

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

SportsFunHave FunGameEnjoyPlay

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

Dolores O'Riordan

MusicPeopleListeningSingingLook

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold J. Toynbee

DogTimeSmallAmericaChairOver

I don't think that any campaign is ennobled by people trading insults.

Susan Collins

PeopleThinkInsultsCampaignAny

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

Rick Barry

StandRidiculousBallThingsShoot

If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.

Nolan Gould

HumbleKeep GoingYourselfBookEgo

Humanity is the child of religion.

Rene Girard

ReligionChildHumanity

I'd always been close to my brother. Very close.

Mark Ruffalo

BrotherAlwaysCloseBeenVery

Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.

Leila Janah

OpportunityPowerChildrenBelieve

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