David Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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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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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.
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I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in translation; I feel rejected all the time.
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I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
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Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.
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The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
