Chuck Feeney Quotes
I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
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If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
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I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
