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.

David Rubenstein

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• 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.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I don't know if I have a favorite color.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Color
  • Favorite

• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • See
  • Right
  • Throw

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• 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?

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Real
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• 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?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Free
  • Dark
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Space
  • Study

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Play
  • Personality

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Book
  • Weird

• I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Comments
  • Reserved

• I took the first few years off and spent them recovering. I didn't even know what day it was or who I was anymore, so I made a conscious effort to end it all. I thought my days were numbered as a pop star anyway. My girlfriend and I had a daughter, I had some money, so I just took the time off to chill out.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Time
  • Money
  • Star

• 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.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • Money
  • College