Paul Allen Quotes
Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I am a just man.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
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Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.
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It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.
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It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them
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Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
