Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
