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George Burns Quotes

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996

Topics

People Hair Busy Driving Bad Run

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

People Law Management Play Unions

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

Dance School Been Four Did Since

'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack.

Hero Find Alien Group London Petty

'Lolita' was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it.

Great Me Out Side Neck Stuck

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I Am People Me Think Know Meet

Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.

John Lanchester

Learning Money Poetry Space Language

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

New York City Me Long New Sometimes

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

Time Long Go Write Through Fine

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

Shraddha Kapoor

Writing Feel You Wrong Without Fact

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Believe Problem Mad Places Way High

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

Nothing Without Effect Shot

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Alone Empathy People Feel Back Try

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