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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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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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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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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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.
