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Burt Shavitz Quotes

I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

Burt Shavitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Better Listen Radio Little Got

You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.

John Dickerson

Yourself End You Lose Never Big

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

Words I Can Say Deception Honest

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Growth Age Ignorance Human Been

It's been a dream of mine since I discovered my first lipstick to create and own my very own brand. My goal is to create products that do exactly what they say and that actually last!

Jeffree Star

Brand Dream Goal Create Lipstick

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

John Tillotson

Power Liberty Places Because Most

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

Roger Ebert

Women Power Time Rose Wealth Paris

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

Roger Ross Williams

Community Man Growing Up Black Gay

I'm very much Israeli and American; I never was tempted to change my name. Some people suggested I should have a different name, and I said absolutely not. That's the name I inherited, and it's meaningful: Israel is on every cake that I present.

Ron Ben-Israel

Change Cake People Present Name

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Mary Astell

Value Self Real Humour Us Than

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.

Jon Voight

Good Father Son Words Happy Unique

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

Johnny Marr

Work Money Me Never Been Really

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

Dolores O'Riordan

Control Grow You Want Grow Up Up