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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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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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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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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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 think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
