David Rockefeller Quotes
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.
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It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
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Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
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A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
