Andrew Mellon Quotes
Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.
