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J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ˈɡɛti/; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by J. Paul Getty

Money

¶ If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Images

Getty in 1944

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty

Tiger Woods (1975- )

Tiger Woods (1975- )

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975)[4][5] is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years according to Forbes.

Woods turned professional in 1996, and by April 1997 he had already won his first major, the 1997 Masters in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010 as world number one. From December 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by several different women, through many worldwide media sources.[6] This was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011.[7][8] He ended a career-long winless streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011.[8] After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, 2013, he ascended to the No.1 Ranking once again.

Woods has broken numerous golf records. He has been world number one for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any other golfer. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times,[9] the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons. He has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any player (Jack Nicklaus leads with 18), and 79 PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead.[10] He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour. Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999. Woods is the only golfer to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship.

Quotes·Quotations by Tiger Woods

Attitudes

¶ If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.

References

[1]^ This is calculated by adding Woods' 79 PGA Tour victories, 8 regular European Tour titles, 2 Japan Tour wins, 1 Asian Tour crown, and the 16 other wins in his career.
[2]^ These are the 14 majors, 18 WGC events, and his eight tour wins.
[3]^ 2009 European Tour Official Guide Section 4 Page 577 PDF 21[dead link]. European Tour. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
[4]^ Sounes, Howard (2004). The Wicked Game: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Story of Modern Golf. Harper Collins. pp. 120–121, 293. ISBN 0-06-051386-1.
[5]^ Divorce decree August 23, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
[6]^ a b c Dahlberg, Tim (December 12, 2009). "Two weeks that shattered the legend of Tiger Woods". Fox News. Associated Press. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
[7]^ "Westwood becomes world number one". BBC News. October 31, 2010.
[8]^ a b c d "Tiger Woods moves to 50th in rankings". ESPN. November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
[9]^ Kelley, Brent (October 20, 2009). "Woods Clinches PGA Player of the Year Award". About.com: Golf. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
[10]^ "Tracking Tiger". NBC Sports. Retrieved June 3, 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_woods

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[1] – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Quotes·Quotations by Willa Cather

Winter

¶ And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

References

[1]^ Woodress, James Leslie. Willa Cather: A Literary Life, Omaha, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987, p. 516. Cather's birth date is confirmed by a birth certificate and a January 22, 1874 letter of her father's referring to her. While working at McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875. After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year. That is the date carved into her gravestone at Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

Steven WRIGHT

Steven Wright

Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Steven Wright

Animal

@ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

@ Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wright

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema. He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.[1]

Quotes·Quotation by Woody Allen

Death·Immortality

¶ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

Money

¶ Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen as Alvy Singer from Annie Hall (1977)

¶ That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

WANG Anshi (王安石, 1021-1086)

WANG Anshi (王安石, 1021-1086)

Wang Anshi (Chinese: 王安石; December 8, 1021 – May 21, 1086 [3]) was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted controversial, major socioeconomic reforms. These reforms constituted the core concepts and motives of the Reformists, while their nemesis, Chancellor Sima Guang, led the Conservative faction against them.

In economics, his reforms expanded the use of money, broke up private monopolies and introduced some forms of government regulation and social welfare. In military affairs, he supported the use of local militias; and in education and government, he expanded the examination system and tried to suppress nepotism. Though successful for a while, he eventually fell out of favor of the emperor.

References

[1]^ hence referred to as Wáng Jīnggōng 王荊公
[2]^ hence referred to as Wáng Wéngōng 王文公
[3]^ 6th day of the 4th month of Yuanyou 1 (元祐元年四月六日), which corresponds to May 21, 1086 in the Julian calendar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anshi
人物: 王安石 (Wang Anshi, 1021-1086)
人物: 王安石 (왕안석, Wáng ānshí, 1021~1086)

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.

Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won twenty-two Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

Quotes·Quotation by Walt Disney

Celebrities

¶ I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Confidence

¶ Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney

Vladimir Bukovsky (1942- )

Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; born December 30, 1942) is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist known for his struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky

Betty Smith (1896-1972)

Betty Smith (1896-1972)

Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner (December 15, 1896 - January 17, 1972), was an American author.

Quotes·Quotations by Betty Smith

Attitude

¶ Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Smith

Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.

Quotes·Quotations by Oscar Levant

Appearance

@ It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
[Describing himself, in lines he contributed to An American In Paris (1951), although officially credited to Alan Jay Lerner, as told in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965); also quoted in The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects (1978) by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle, p. 485]

¶ Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Genius

@ There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
[As quoted in Celebrity Register : An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables (1959) by Cleveland Amory]

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived." His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution.

The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written, due, independently, to the specific physical laws the work successfully described, and for the style of the work, which assisted in setting standards for scientific publication down to the present time. Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function, and contributed to the study of power series. Newton's work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals.

Newton, although an unorthodox Christian, was deeply religious, and wrote more on Biblical hermeneutics and occult studies than on science and mathematics. Newton secretly rejected Trinitarianism, and feared being accused of refusing holy orders.

Quotes·Quotations by Isaac Newton

Communication

¶ Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Isaac_Newton

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).

Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954); and The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last movie was The Harder They Fall (1956). During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.

Quotes·Quotation by Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)

¶ The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

¶ Here's looking at you, kid.

¶ Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

¶ We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

¶ Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart

Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)

Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)

Edward G. Robinson (Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג Emanuel Goldnberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo. Other memorable roles include Barton Keyes in the film noir Double Indemnity, and as Dathan in The Ten Commandments. Robinson was selected for an Honorary Academy Award for his work in the film industry, which was posthumously awarded two months after the actor's death in 1973. He was included in the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars in American cinema.

Quotes·Quotations by Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson as Cesare Enrico Rico Bandello from Little Caesar (1930)

¶ Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.

Quotes·Quotations by Edvard Munch

Death·Immortality

¶ From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd ˈkɪplɪŋ/ rud-yəd kip-ling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

Quotes·Quotations by Rudyard Kipling

Words

¶ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Brad Pitt (1963- )

Brad Pitt (1963- )

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received four Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one Golden Globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.[1][2]

Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Legends of the Fall (1994). In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In addition, Pitt owns a production company, Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include The Departed (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted wide publicity.[3] He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally.

Quotes·Quotations by Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999)

¶ You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.

References

[1]^ a b Brad Pitt 'sexiest man alive'. November 2, 2000 [cited November 15, 2008]. BBC News.
[2]^ Jeanna Bryner. Study: Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women. August 23, 2007 [cited January 1, 2008]. Fox News.
[3]^ a b The Brangelina fever. The Age (Australia). February 6, 2006 [cited September 8, 2008]. Reuters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt

Ben Bernanke (1953- )

Ben Bernanke (1953- )

Ben Shalom Bernanke (English pronunciation: /bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist, and the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. During his tenure as Chairman, Bernanke has overseen the response of the Federal Reserve to late-2000s financial crisis.

Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and was chair of the Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave. From 2002 until 2005, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Here he outlined the Bernanke Doctrine and first spoke of the Great Moderation, where he postulated that we are in a new era, where modern macroeconomic policy has decreased the volatility of the business cycle. He then served as Chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush appointed him to be Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve on February 1, 2006. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as Chairman on January 28, 2010, after being nominated by President Barack Obama.

Quotes·Quotation by Ben Bernanke

Finance, Finance·Money

¶ The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and, hence, positive inflation. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ The U.S. government is not going to print money and distribute it willy-nilly ... although there are policies that approximate this behavior. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ A central bank should always be able to generate inflation, even when the short-term nominal interest rate is zero ...[this] more direct method, which I personally prefer, would be for the Fed to announce ceilings for yields on all longer-maturity Treasury debt. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ This devaluation and the rapid increase in money supply ... ended the U.S. deflation remarkably quickly. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ The Fed has the authority to buy foreign government debt, as well as domestic government debt. Potentially, this class of assets offers huge scope for Fed operations, as the quantity of foreign assets eligible for purchase by the Fed is several times the stock of U.S. government debt. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. [Ben Bernanke, Speech given on Apr. 7, 2010 to the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, "Economic Challenges: Past, Present and Future"]

¶ And so yeah, I'm sleeping a little better, but again, I think it's really important not to be complacent. We have a long way to go, a lot of work to do, and we're going to keep doing that. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

¶ We're not paying any attention to election calendars or political debates. We're looking at the economy. We want to make the right decision. We want to do it without political pressure, and that's what we're going to do. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

Nerd

¶ I am very proud of my nerd-dom. In fact, the world needs more nerds. Nerds, you know, create more jobs and advance science and I hope make good economic policy but that remains to be seen. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke

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