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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Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities
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I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.
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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
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The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
