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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Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
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I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.
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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.
