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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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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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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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
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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.
