John Jacob Astor Quotes
The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.
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The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
