J. Paul Getty Quotes
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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History's a resource.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.
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When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.
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The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
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What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
