J. Paul Getty Quotes

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

J. Paul Getty

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• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

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• The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

  

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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  

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• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

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• But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

  

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• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

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• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

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• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

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• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

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• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

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• Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

  

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• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  

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  • Done
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• In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Nature
  • Japanese