J. Paul Getty Quotes
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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If you make a movie that's close to your heart, it will be close to other people's.
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I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
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I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful business people, wondering how they got there. You start to realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.
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It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh the Islamic State, Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
