Chuck Feeney Quotes
People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.Chuck Feeney
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
Lara Giddings -
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent -
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa -
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld -
I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
Gareth Bale -
I love rock n' rollers.
Carlene Carter -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
Valerie Trierweiler -
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane -
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
Larry Bishop -
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings -
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini
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Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.
Clara Shih -
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Bruce Beresford -
Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.
Andy Griffith -
There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
Lucio Tan -
Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.
John Fleming -
People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.
Chuck Feeney