David Rockefeller Quotes
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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I think you have to be extremely strong to be in the police and I couldn't do that at all. I get nervous when a police car is driving past me when I'm in the car, pondering what they're doing or going to.
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We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
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Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.
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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
