John Jacob Astor Quotes
The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.John Jacob Astor
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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.
P. G. Wodehouse -
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.
Idina Menzel -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
I'm still learning my craft.
Yann Martel -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson -
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.
Vanessa Mae -
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
Hamid Karzai -
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
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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.
R. Kelly -
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
Inara George -
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster -
Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
Madeleine Stowe -
Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.
Alex Berenson -
Think what you want, this is what we are.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons -
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
John Ratzenberger -
The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
John Jacob Astor