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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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'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 mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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Sleep, my little one, sleep.
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They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.
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I think the days of just filling the time and putting a disc out is over, and I'm glad, because those are some of my least favourite records.
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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
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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.
