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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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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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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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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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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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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He knew there must be a Ring, and he patted his pocket where he had it; he thought there should be a Best Man, though when he wrote so to Daily Alice she wrote that they didn't believe in that; and as for Rehearsals, she said when he mentioned them, 'Don't you want it to be a surprise?'
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A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
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Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
