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George Burns Quotes

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Here Anywhere

The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity of the new tools increased, efficiency and usefulness began to decrease.

Tools Efficiency Rise Born New Web

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.

Toshihiko Fukui

Growth Experience Influence Present

Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.

Rest You Achieve Will Way Economy

'Girls Go Wild' was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some close friends after coming home from a long bit of touring.

Home Tree Friends Long Born Go

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

Poor Welfare Being Being Broke Broke

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Process End Lonely Difficult Act

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Imagination Mom World Reading Voice

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

Life Like Our Levels Prefer

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

William Langewiesche

World Small Story Transportation How

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Movies Act Being Paid Idea Stuff

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Parents Me Growing Up Fly World Go

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Me Think You I Can Why Try

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