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Raymond Burr Quotes

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 21, 1917 - September 12, 1993

Topics

Sea Uncomfortable Years Up Lived

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

Work Best Moving Forward Value Think

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Good Yourself You Wrong Create Beat

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

Yourself People Me You Cookies Go

In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.

Story Problem You Hang Ghost Four

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Joseph Wambaugh

Police Me Surviving Pretty Cop Saw

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Great Poetry Against About Thing

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Life Music People Ideas World Song

From shoes that are a size too small to a dress that doesn't fit quite right, there are incredible pieces in most wardrobes that have never been worn.

Shoes Dress Small Never Right Size

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

World Curiosity Drive Philosophy

I'm a super tomboy.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Music Play Want Playing Composition

There is an intention to colonise Libya. And this makes the Libyan people want to fight the new colonisation by the West.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Fight People Intention New Want

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