David Rockefeller Quotes
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.
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My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
