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Burt Shavitz Quotes

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1935 - July 5, 2015

Topics

Life Money Me Magic Living Land

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

God Winner You Wants

The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

Sleep Think Pressure Something Us

I wouldn't put myself forward to do a film like 'Changeling' if I thought I couldn't pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

Myself People Me Forward Thought

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Hate College Loss You Lose Feeling

When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.

God People Know Talk Mean Difficult

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

Private Secluded

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

Arnon Goldfinger

Life History War People Think Look

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

Life Nature Happiness Best Simple

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Future Knowledge Government Ideas

When 9/11 happened, I was like, 'I gotta do something.' I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, 'So I could go try out for Special Forces?'

People Go Street Special Try Out

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Great Best Job I Can Say Movies

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

Me Hair White Through Idol Phase

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