David Rubenstein Quotes
I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
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...the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric the English constitution...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
