Eden Phillpotts Quotes
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Money just draws flies.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
