George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

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• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

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• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

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• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

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• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

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• I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

  

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• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

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• Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

  

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• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

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• Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.

  

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• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

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• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

  

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• In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

  

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• For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.

  

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• Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

  

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• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

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  • Man
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• I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

  

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• Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

  

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• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• I just get grumpy with bad behaviour.

  

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  • Bad

• I'm not going to launch a bikini business and then give up bikinis, am I?

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Up
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• I am persuaded that in Russia, Austria, and Germany nine-tenths of the hostility to the Jew comes from the average Christian's inability to compete successfully with the average Jew in business-in either straight business or the questionable sort.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Business
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• The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Going