J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
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There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.
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I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
