David Rockefeller Quotes
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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But I think we need the international market.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
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One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
