J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I love proving people wrong.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.
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Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
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Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.
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I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
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Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
