Paul Mellon Quotes

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

Paul Mellon

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I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

John Hillcoat

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I've always made the choice to do everything to my fullest potential.

Amy Purdy

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I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.

Mike Rowe

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Chauncey Depew

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The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.

Anthony Russo

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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

AnnaLynne McCord

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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

Wyclef Jean

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I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

Peter Coyote

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The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Seth Moulton

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A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Tim O'Reilly

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