Chuck Feeney Quotes
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
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Day by day, morning by morning, begin your walk with Him in the calm trust that God is at work in everything....It is your personal business, as a discipline of your heart, to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation....Remember, friend, where your real living is going on. In your thinking, in your reacting, in your heart of hearts - here is where your walk with God begins and continues. So when you start to move into trusting Him, stay there. Don't wander out again into worry and doubt!
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The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.
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How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.
