David Rockefeller Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.
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We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
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The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
