David Rockefeller Quotes
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
David Rockefeller
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
P. J. O'Rourke
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman
Winners do what losers don't want to do.
Gary Busey
Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
Q'orianka Kilcher
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
Vera Farmiga
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
Karel Reisz
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
Tammy Baldwin
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
Ike Skelton
In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
Gail Kelly
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
R. B. Kitaj
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
Damon Wayans
Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
Penny Junor
We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
Frank McCourt
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
David Rockefeller
