David Rockefeller Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.
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We've got to make the small things unforgettable.
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As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.
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The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
