Chuck Feeney Quotes

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

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• When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Society
  • Health

• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Different
  • You
  • Him

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • You
  • Perspective
  • Hollywood

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Me
  • Eye

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Long
  • Today
  • Guy

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Abuse

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Opportunities

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Wish
  • Football

• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

  Wale
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Passion

• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Dream
  • Strong
  • Fashion

• I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.

  

  James Hibberd
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  • Work
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• I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

  

  Lord Melbourne
  • Doubt
  • Popular

• I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

  

  Chuck Feeney
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  • Church
  • Catholic