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

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Source : "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.

Paul Getty

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“I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.”
“People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.”
“I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.”
“One cat just leads to another.”
“I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.”
“I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.”
“It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.”
“When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?”

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