Carl Icahn Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
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I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
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I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
