David Rockefeller Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
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The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
