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“I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.”

“To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.”

Today Young Gone Environment Creatures Adapting Darwinism Old Time

Author:John Carpenter

“It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.”

Giving Natural Gone Wise Air Influence Fashion Goodness Breathe Noble Nobility Impart Ethereal

Author:Felix Adler

“There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.”

Want Humans Littles Self Bits Gone Little Bit Strive Flaws Transcendence

Author:George Leonard

“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”

Knows Years Mean Two Games Sports Gone Five Thousand Ten Seven Zero Do You Know Bats Really Mean

Author:Reggie Jackson

“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”

Firsts Lasts Death Gone Dying Youth Hair Thousand Died Graves Teeth Dust Odd

Author:Lord Byron

“He has gone over to the majority.”

Death Gone Dying Majority

Author:Petronius

“While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"”

Knows Said Humor Funny Gone Bedroom Furniture Roommate

Author:Steven Wright

“I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.”

Humor Funny Gone Zone Neighborhood Tow

Author:Steven Wright

“Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.”

Knows Should Parent Company Technology Gone Huge Hundred Independent Radio Classic Digital Stations Discs Jockeys Digital Technology

Author:Joe Walsh

“In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.”

Mean Country Law Term Natural Gone Divine Institutions Conservative Our Country Tension Revelations Natural Law Divine Revelation

Author:Francis George

“I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.”

World Want Believe Evil Force I Believe Gone I Believe In Back And Forth

Author:Stephen King

“I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.”

Thinking Persons Gone Camping

Author:Mila Kunis

“We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.”

Want Firsts Humans Young Next Social Responsibility Cases Gone Doors Baby Female Instinct Neighbor Brutal Social Responsibility Hostile Juicy Next Door Neighbors First Baby

Author:Jane Goodall

“I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.”

Thinking Believe Would Be Names Gone Wind Citizens Don't Believe Damn Better Off Gimmicks Citizen Kane

Author:William Friedkin

“I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.”

Mean Might Actors Brain Gone Great Things Dormant

Author:Josh Peck

“I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.”

Thinking Knows Believe Gone

Author:John Trudell

“I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."”

Knows Kids Courses Walks Gone Saws Nice Couple Office Tough Tables Size Expected Holes Nails County Dimes Gunshots Morgues

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.”

Long I Can Enough Feelings Reality School Remember Three Left Memories Gone Teacher Four Honest Being Honest Vivid Funny Things Faded Tedium Bad Memories

Author:Colin Firth

“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.”

“I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.”

Thinking Understanding Destiny Gone Letting Go Our Destiny Your Destiny Control Your Destiny

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.”

Said Film Gone Capitalism Critics They Said

Author:Eli Roth

“I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!”

People Feels Real Facts Dies Gone Successful Violence Magic Dying Tricks Magic Tricks

Author:Eli Roth

“My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.”

Father Parent Behinds Gone Professors Harvard Psycho Analysts Parents Love Cameos

Author:Eli Roth

“What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.”

“I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.”

Ifs Persons Soul Character Film Young Certain Realizing Gone Forever Your Soul Portions

Author:Glen Hansard

“The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.”

Two Next Challenges Gone One Day Photography Shots Next Day Two Days New Challenges

Author:Patrick Demarchelier

“But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.”

Ifs Stuff Audience Gone Heard Materials Majority Albums New Stuff

Author:Patton Oswalt

“And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.”

Ifs Enough Lost Gone Successful Week Profit Spending Boards More Time Vacation Non Profit

Author:John Hickenlooper

“The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.”

Thinking Feels May Strong Gone Victim Sassy Overboard

Author:Kristen Bell

“I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.”

Thinking Causes Results Gone Regret Circumstances Drug Myth Alcohol Rage Hopefully Relate Appeals Werewolf Exhaustion Unleashed Leashes

Author:Benjamin Percy

“Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.”

Reality Accepting Gone Old Days

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.”

Rooms Gone Sympathy Our Love

Author:Billie Jean King

“I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.”

Way Giving Feels Actors Realizing Careers Gone Humility Perspective Glad Movie Just One Vogue

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.”

People World Art School Artist Understanding Gone Denial Legacy Humanist Exposed Mainstream Publishing Engaging Modernism Art School Avant Garde

Author:Tommy McCarthy

“I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.”

Years Stills Ideas Different Gone Seasons Grateful Who I Am No Idea Andrew Seasons Of Life

Author:Andrew Ripp

“Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.”

People Knows I Can School Girl Waiting Gone Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.”

Thinking Different War Light Wish Gone Understood Vietnam

Author:Oliver Stone

“I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).”

Today Gone Too Much Groups Habit Late Lifestyle Ads Teens 80s Compatible Gaming Rpgs

Author:Charles Stross

“If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!”

Ifs Should Writing Facts Bigs Wanted Novel Gone Hints

Author:Charles Stross

“I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.”

Knows Way Want Persons Character Hate Actors Pleasure Gone Knowing Too Much I Hate Agree Divorce Screens Cinema Viewers Alcoholics Knowing Too Much

Author:Keira Knightley

“Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.”

Thinking World Needs Hands Seems Kids Challenges Gone Hell Generations Members Baskets

Author:Steven Petrow

“I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.”

Thinking World States Suffering United United States Gone Right Now Capitalism Excess

Author:Tadao Ando

“I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.”

Feels Important Artist Gone Changed Offers Foundation Luxury Landscape Helpful Scholar

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.”

Knows Stills Laughing Gone Cry Cancer Breasts Breast Cancer

Author:Monica Potter

“I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.”

People Seems Kids Guy Gone Type Beats Weak Type Of Guy

Author:Suge Knight

“When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!”

Years Dies Heaven Prayer Lord Gone My Friends Getting Old Good Day Diapers

Author:Suge Knight

“I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'”

Knows Want Humans Two Past Gone Events Human Nature Wind Core All Time Accurate Historic Popular Movie

Author:David McCullough

“I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.”

People Film Gone Studios

Author:Tilda Swinton

“When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.”

Age Gone Dear Dear Friend

Author:Kirk Douglas

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