George Raft Quotes
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.
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Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.
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Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
