Chuck Feeney Quotes
There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
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There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.
