David Rockefeller Quotes
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
