John Caudwell Quotes
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
Quotes to Explore
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
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I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
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He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator. (p.7)
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Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
