David Rockefeller Quotes
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.
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I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
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Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people's lives better. And since that's pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea.
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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
