David Rockefeller Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I was an expert horseman.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
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Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
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No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
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Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
