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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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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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
