Chuck Feeney Quotes
I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I've never been a partier.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.
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I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.