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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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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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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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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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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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.
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All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
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I don't even know why people do crime. They want to catch you, they're gonna catch you. They can. They got forensics. You ever seen forensics? Those guys find clues nobody else thinks about looking for. I mean it. You leave a pubic hair anywhere near a crime scene, they're gonna find that shit.
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There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.
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The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
