J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
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But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
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I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment.
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I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
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I did go to fashion college, where I was a little punky, a little Bow Wow Wow. I wore red eyeliner. At the time, Vivienne Westwood was really big, so it was a lot of that. London was having a really big moment. I was mixing vintage with things I had made.
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Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
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I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.
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I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.
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To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
