Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
Malaika Arora Khan
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
Kate O'Mara
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
Kailash Kher
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I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
Avicenna
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He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth - they, and they only.
John Ruskin
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We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.
Amy Poehler
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I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
Frank Abagnale
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I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
Cornelius Vanderbilt