David Rockefeller Quotes

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

David Rockefeller

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
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• I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Real
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• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
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• At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • May
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  • Wonder

• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Live
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• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Age
  • Religious

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
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• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
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• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
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• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
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• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
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  • Animals

• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • World
  • Experience
  • War

• I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Control

• There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Life
  • Age

• Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

  

  Leslie Morgan Steiner
  • Family
  • Violence

• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Life