George Kaiser Quotes

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

George Kaiser

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• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Film
  • Inspiration
  • Television

• You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • War
  • Democracy

• Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Stronger
  • Minimum Wage

• In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• Oh, no. Not me, not Marshall. You want to see Marshall? I'll show you Marshall! I tried to show you art, but you just pick it apart.

  

  Eminem
  • Art

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • War
  • Song

• I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Children
  • Real
  • Happy

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Choices
  • Luck
  • Talking

• Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Gay
  • Disappointment

• I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

  

  George Kaiser
  • Commitment
  • Luck
  • Fortune