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 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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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
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Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
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What could be a better recipe than mixing fashion and food?
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To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
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I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
