David Rubenstein Quotes
My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.
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A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
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My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.
