David Rockefeller Quotes

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

David Rockefeller

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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • World
  • Best
  • Honor

• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Wave

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Health
  • Fight
  • Healthy

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Never
  • Ego
  • Self-Worth

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • System
  • Bank
  • Fails

• When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Life
  • Monday
  • Glitter

• I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005)

  

  Chen Shui-bian

• I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

  

  Peter Weller

• God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Important
  • Words
  • Powerful

• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Service