Charles F. Haanel Quotes
Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
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Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
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We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
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Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.
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I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
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I definitely don't make many friends. It's my choice; I just have a wall. It's not that I have anything against anyone.
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I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.