David Rockefeller Quotes

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

David Rockefeller

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• 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
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Think

• When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • College
  • Very

• I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Safety

• 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
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Myself

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• 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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• 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
  • May
  • Successful
  • Prove

• I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Obsession

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• 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
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Death
  • Will
  • Belts

• 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
  • Real
  • Truth
  • History

• I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Light
  • Space
  • Chef

• It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Better
  • Modern
  • Retro

• I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Church
  • Records
  • Don't Believe

• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

  

  Edwin Land
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Technology is, in many respects, an enabler for an open, transparent society. But it's also an enabler for supervision to a completely unforeseen degree. And for commercialising personal space to an unforeseen degree.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Society
  • Space
  • Technology

• MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Money
  • Space