David Rockefeller Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I turned down a lot of films.
Francesca Annis -
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
Rachel Griffiths -
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
Edgar Wright -
Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
Rachel Zoe
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady Gaga -
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
Ada Lovelace -
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
C. Wright Mills -
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
Frances McDormand -
I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
Mahershala Ali -
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
AJ McLean
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
Adam Grant -
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
Talulah Riley -
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
Aberjhani -
I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
Cara Buono -
Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
Manny Pacquiao -
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker
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One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
Kevin Kwan -
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
J. I. Packer -
Shooting is my principal pastime.
William S. Burroughs -
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.
Alfonso Cuaron -
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner -
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
David Rockefeller