David Rockefeller Quotes
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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I have matured a lot.
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I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
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It is the same with art. Art will become the product of another duality in man: the product of a cultivated externality and of an inwardness deepened and more conscious. As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form.
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Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.
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We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
