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J. Paul Getty Quotes

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976

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Change Experience I Have Learned

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

New York Mind New Boston Always

We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

Myself Wise People Tough Trouble

Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.

Parents Judging Way Never Anything

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Best Know Way Intimacy Fiction Act

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

Change Today Money People Believe

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

Good Crisis Options Midst

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

Soul People World My Soul Doing

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

Life My Life Stealing Been Scenes

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Jordan Peterson

Women Men People Small Career Why

I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

People Regret Deserve Mean Defend

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

Me World Done Nothing

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Human Everything Shape Reverence Owe

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