William Henry Vanderbilt Quotes
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.
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Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.
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I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
