Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman Quotes
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
