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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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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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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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.
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Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
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When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo.
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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.
