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Musicians own music because music owns them. -- Virgil Thomson
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image. -- Megan Fox
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. -- William S. Burroughs
I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you. -- Sinbad
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer. -- Leonard Lauder
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. -- Kin Hubbard
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. -- Ronald Coase
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. -- Dave Barry
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. -- Victor Hugo
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. -- Donald Trump
The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect. -- Thomas Friedman
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans. -- Alice Cooper
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house. -- Bruce Barton
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? -- Richard Russo
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. -- Eric Alterman
Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.' -- Randall Munroe
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? -- Sitting Bull
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. -- Marilyn Manson
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. -- Sol LeWitt
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. -- Ben Harper
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to maximize profit. An aspect of serving the public is to use the immense power of electronic media to reflect evolving standards of respect for other people. -- Reed Hundt
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point? -- Andie MacDowell
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet. -- Steve Tisch
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. -- James Wolcott
Vince McMahon owns me. -- John Cena
Nobody owns me or my music. -- Ziggy Marley
He who owns little is little owned. -- Henry David Thoreau
Who owns your body? You or the state? -- Martha Plimpton
He only is rich who owns the day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God owns all the wealth in the world! -- John Hagee
God owns heaven but He craves the earth. -- Anne Sexton
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. -- Ellen Perry
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. -- Adolf Hitler
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone -- Paulo Coelho
To worship is to remember Who owns the house. -- Walter Wink
A man is known by the company he owns. -- Vince Lombardi
No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him. -- Amadeo Giannini
If a man owns land, the land owns him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you own, the more it owns you. -- Henry Rollins
The last man that makes a joke owns it. -- Finley Peter Dunne
I'm fortunately not in a situation where someone owns me. -- Paul Reubens
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it? -- Prince Philip
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. -- Douglas William Jerrold
If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk? -- Erma Bombeck
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. -- A. J. Liebling
Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. -- Mitch Albom
Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all -- Shri Radhe Maa
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves -- Plutarch
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. -- Joe Pantoliano
We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass. -- George Carlin
I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. -- Joan Didion
We never really own a dog as much as she owns us. -- Gene Hill
In our society a man is known by the company he owns. -- Gerald F. Lieberman
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned -- Andre Gide
If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you. -- Raymond Chandler
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here. -- George Carlin
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. -- William Colby
Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them. -- Nicole Guillaume
Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times. -- John Fugelsang
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen. -- Tim Ferriss
People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong. -- Robert Lutz
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them. -- Sigrid Undset
I've never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you're the one who owns me. -- Laurelin Paige
I don't just love her, she owns me. Completely. I'd do anything for her -- Abbi Glines
Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. -- Rumi
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. -- Ben Harper
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company. -- Harlan Coben
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer. -- Leonard Lauder
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns. -- Jimmy Carter
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it. -- Shelley Duvall
Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us. -- Ken Hutcherson
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you. -- Albert Schweitzer
Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing. -- William Gilmore Simms
The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will. -- James Galvin
This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I'm a slave to her will. -- Collette West
The difference between Sales and Marketing is that Marketing owns the message and Sales owns the relationship. -- John Jantsch
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. -- Ronald Reagan
I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today. -- Walter Schloss
If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life? -- Sue Rodriguez
The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press. -- Nat Hentoff
[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word. -- James MacDonald
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. -- Peter Sotos
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. -- George Matthew Adams
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK. -- Matt Chandler
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. -- Auliq Ice
No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do. -- William Levitt
My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else. -- Megan Fox
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. -- Antonio Machado
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. -- Pope Leo XIII
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny. -- Frida Kahlo
God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians. -- Adrian Rogers
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. -- Holly Black
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. -- Warren Buffett
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. -- Immanuel Kant
He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns. -- Malak El Halabi
My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good. -- Amy Sedaris
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them. -- Caroline B. Cooney
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns -- Kurt Vonnegut
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong. -- Aaron Levie
Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen. -- Shannon L. Alder
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. -- Eric Foner
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you. -- Tucker Max
If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth? -- Peter Kay
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. -- Ron Paul
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? -- Jonas Salk
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession. -- Charles L. Allen
You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?' -- Neal Boortz
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. -- Henry Van Dyke
Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world. -- Jose Arguelles
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does. -- Omar Khayyam
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