Charles Ponzi Quotes
I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
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I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.
