David Rockefeller Quotes
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I feel like everybody has an old flame: if you've had someone you've broken up with and then gotten back together with. Everybody goes through that. It's always a good moment when you've been away from somebody you loved for so long.
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I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
