Chuck Feeney Quotes
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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To be is to do.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot,Through him the gale of life blew high;The tree of man was never quiet:Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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I don't have much patience with sick people.
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A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
