"If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it."

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"Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there."

- George Burns

Love

"Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there."

- George Burns

Love

"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth."

- George Burns

Self-awareness

""Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.""

- George Burns

Happiness

""I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.""

- George Burns

Happiness

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition