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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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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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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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
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Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
