John Catsimatidis Quotes
I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.
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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
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We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.
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And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.
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I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.
