J. Paul Getty Quotes
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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 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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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.
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I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
