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.

  

  Sallust
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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.

  

  Aaron Douglas
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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.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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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.

  

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

  

  Maggie Hassan
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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.

  

  Gary Lineker
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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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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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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• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

  

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• I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

  

  Kendall Jenner
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• What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

  

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• I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we're in.

  

  Bill Haslam
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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