Chuck Feeney Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney -
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney -
We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
Karl Lehmann -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett -
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
Naftali Bennett -
I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
Finn Wittrock -
Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
Yami Gautam -
What's a hero if not for its journey.
J. H. Wyman -
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
T. E. Lawrence
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
Walt Mossberg -
Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke -
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal 'honor' and court etiquette.
Isaac Asimov -
I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
Elias Canetti -
Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
John Adams -
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Angela Carter
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The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
Mary Karr -
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
William Hazlitt -
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Francis Bacon -
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
I'm a shabby dresser.
Chuck Feeney