Bill Bonner Quotes
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
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There is a reality - so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
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It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
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A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
