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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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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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 wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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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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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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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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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'
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The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
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There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
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I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.
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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
