Sam Walton Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.
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Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.
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The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.
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One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
