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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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 like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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I'm really lucky to have my brother because I know a lot of teenagers, and even adults, aren't as close to their siblings. Working in Hollywood definitely does bring us together and gives us something to connect on. I had an audition yesterday and he came by before and ran my sides with me. Being able to work on things together is really cool and it gives us something to have in common.
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I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
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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.
