Chuck Feeney Quotes

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Young
  • Strange
  • Senior

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I don't believe in writer's block.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Believe
  • Writer
  • Block

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Moon

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Book

• Liberal elites and Democratic Party elders want all Hispanics to fall into a monolithic liberal agenda.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Party
  • Fall

• When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Successful
  • Creation

• You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you can do it for a little bit, but loud people are loud, and people who are not, are not.

  

  Mario Testino
  • People

• Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People
  • Women

• People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • People
  • Money