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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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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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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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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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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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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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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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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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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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.
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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.
