Kirk Kerkorian Quotes

#1. The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

Martin Yan

#2. I've always been a quiet guy.

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#3. I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

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#4. I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

Doreen Cronin

#5. We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. I exercise a lot. I try to stay healthy.

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#7. I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

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#8. I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

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#9. I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

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#10. When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

Keeley Hawes

#11. Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.

Edward Kowalczyk

#12. If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

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#13. Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Isaac Watts

#14. I'm a very passive investor.

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#15. People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

David A. Bednar

#16. Practicing kindness and selflessness, you naturally align your life with the Integral Way. Aligning your life with the Integral Way, you begin to eliminate the illusory boundaries between people and societies, between darkness and light, between life and death.

Brian Browne Walker

#17. Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

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#18. You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

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#19. I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

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#20. No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

Criss Angel

#21. When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

Harry Belafonte

#22. something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable, just as a piece of paper can only be folded so many times before it cannot be folded any more. While

Krystal Sutherland

#23. I don't try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.

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#24. I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

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#25. Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

Carole Maso

#26. I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

Kate Bush

#27. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

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#28. When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

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