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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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 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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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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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.
