Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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To be is to do.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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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 hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.
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Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.
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Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.
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I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
