Wilbur Ross Quotes
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
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There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
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I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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We cannot choose between economic growth and sustainability - we must have both.
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What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"
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The hospitality is second to none and we really enjoy being here. Everyone seems so genuinely happy that we are here.
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I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used...You are quite certain, my friend, as you go on through life, to have to make up your mind to failure and disappointment on your own part, and to seeing other men preferred before you...The only way not to be disappointed when a thing turns out against you, is not to have really cared how the thing went.
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
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Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
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Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
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You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
