Chuck Feeney Quotes
I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
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The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
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Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.
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I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
