David Rubenstein Quotes
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
Quotes to Explore
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.
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Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
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China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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«Spain is a great nation and Spaniards very Spanish and much Spanish.»
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The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.
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'Tis strange how the heart can createOr colour from itself its fate;We make ourselves our own distress,We are ourselves our happiness.
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What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
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God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.
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I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
