John Jacob Astor Quotes
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I know what poverty is.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.
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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
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From a fort you get a trading post, and from a trading post you will get a city.
