Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.
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I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'
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We were in New York, and we were performing at a morning show. This fan literally ran from that studio in the middle of New York City to our airport, which was very far away. That fan ran all the way there to see us, and we were so in awe of that guy.
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Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it's always from girls - often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don't understand why we can't put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.
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Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
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I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
