J. Paul Getty Quotes
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
