J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.