George Gilder Quotes
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.George Gilder
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes -
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
I don't really go out at all.
Jack Kerouac -
In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
Frances Beinecke -
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Maisie Williams
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou -
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
Imelda May -
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim -
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane -
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge -
As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
Malin Akerman
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnon -
My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
Abbey Clancy -
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
Karan Johar -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
Kate Millett -
I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
Owain Yeoman
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Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
John Travolta -
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.
Phillipa Soo -
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
Pablo Picasso -
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier -
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
George Gilder