George Soros Quotes
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
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At some point that night, I glimpsed my most probable future. That one day, the most interesting and important thing about me would be a thing that I did a long time ago.
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I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
