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.David Rockefeller
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Babasaheb -
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Garry Disher -
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
Hansie Cronje -
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
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.
Hans Zimmer -
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
Iris Chang -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
You can almost taste the pressure now.
Vin Scully
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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.
Olivia Munn -
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant -
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.
Pankaj Patel -
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky -
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
Dan Savage -
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills -
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
Hampton Sides -
People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.
Chuck Fleischmann -
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
Peter Mandelson -
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
Antony Hewish -
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.
David Rockefeller