Carl Icahn Quotes
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
