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.

George Soros

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• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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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.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Business
  • War
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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.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
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• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Want
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• But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Know
  • Chicago

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• 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.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Women
  • Freedom

• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Night
  • Will

• I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Me
  • Grateful

• It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Giving
  • You
  • Only

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Women
  • High

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Healthy
  • Depressing
  • Bubbling

• I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Writing
  • Lyric

• Ya' want to know what I will do as president it's real simple. We'll kill terrorists, we'll repeal Obamacare, and we will defend the constitution. Every single word of of it!

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Real
  • Single
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  George Soros
  • Believe
  • Afford
  • Philanthropic