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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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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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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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Videogames are probably my first love.
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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.
