J. Paul Getty Quotes
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
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No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
