J. Paul Getty Quotes
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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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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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
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Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.
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The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
