J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
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I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
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What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
