Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
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Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
