J. Paul Getty Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban -
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni -
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Carl Yastrzemski -
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
Raf Simons -
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
Washed Out -
Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
Zach Galifianakis -
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May -
As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
Walker Stapleton
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
Talulah Riley -
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader -
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Ovid -
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Aaron Klug -
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
Victor Cruz -
You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
Eden Hazard -
As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
Najib Razak -
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
Dan Jenkins -
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco -
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty