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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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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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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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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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.
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To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
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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.
