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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It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.
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During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
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I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
