J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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I'm not very happy idle.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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I think once I see everybody and go through every team and their pitchers, I'll get an idea of what they like to do. And they'll see what I like to do and swing at. I think there's always something you've got to adjust to.
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I change the workout every month, so you never adapt and never plateau.
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Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
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I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.
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Thankfully, I've got great support around me to keep my feet on the floor.
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There's no question that the Internet generally, and Netflix specifically, upended the traditional content-distribution supply chain and caused profound changes in the entertainment industry.
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
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Our safety and security is more important than ever, and Congress needs to take an active role in enforcing international agreements that support global security.
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Labourers had diminished, game had tripled. The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.
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I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
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Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.
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When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
