"I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living."

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Source : "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com.

Doyle Brunson

#Important Quotes #Relate Quotes

“I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.”
“God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.”
“The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system. Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.”
“Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.14, Open Road Media
“Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.”
“[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?”

Source : "7:30 Report" interview, May 08, 2006.
“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.”
“A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.”

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