Arthur George Gaston (A. G. Gaston) Quotes

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

Arthur George Gaston

• Life
• Good
• Money
• Community
• Bridge

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• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I do watch a lot of YouTube.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • YouTube

• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Same
  • Now
  • Weight

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • May
  • Wall
  • Handwriting

• I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
  • Confidence
  • Pen

• When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Done

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • Sad

• I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Taken

• Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

  

  Arthur George Gaston
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money