Elia Kazan Quotes
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
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I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
