Elbert Hubbard Quotes
It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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To be is to do.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.
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I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
