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  • I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
  • You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
  • Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
  • There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
  • By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
  • Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
  • Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
  • Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
  • Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
  • When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Helen Rowland A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Tom Landry I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won t.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Denzel Washington I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bill Hader Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Bob Guccione You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.
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  • Charles F. Kettering You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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