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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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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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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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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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
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Studios felt like Blu-ray was going to be the next panacea, and so they dumped the prices (of traditional DVDs) and devalued the product. That's a misreading of consumer behavior as well as a misreading of the economic environment.
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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.
