J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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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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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.
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You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
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I don’t like the Bushes, I love the Bushes. They’re wonderful people. They’re the most loyal friends. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them.
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There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
