Famous Quotes
- "Stealing from one is plagiarism, stealing from many is research"
- "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
- "To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady."
- "I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."
- "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."
- "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down".
- "Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
- "Working for Warner Brothers is like fucking a porcupine: it's a hundred pricks against one."
- "Treat a whore like a lady — and a lady like a whore."
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or quotes:
“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
—Richard Burton (1925–1984)
“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)