Paul Allen Quotes

Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving Africa's elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.

Paul Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018

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I'd rather be in the ring, 10 times out of 10.

John Cena

RingOutRatherTimes

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

John Lasseter

LoveDesignUniqueEarlyFrench

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

Anna Quindlen

FunHave FunSomeoneYouWantKids

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeEndingFeelEnoughWantMean

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Simon Schama

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A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

Torii Hunter

YourselfBrokenMindBelieveYou

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

Tommy Shaw

VintageGuitarPlayKindGuyRough

I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.

Rivers Cuomo

TeamThinkMusiciansBandDirector

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

LifeAttitudePeopleSomeoneYou

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Rudy Giuliani

PeopleSocietyUnderstandFairOpen

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

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