Albert Gubay Quotes
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Parody is homage gone sour.
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
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I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
