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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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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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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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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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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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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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 don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
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Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?
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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.
