Nelson Rockefeller Quotes
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I am a journalist.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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I can't imagine what this great country would be like if the Mexican Revolution hadn't happened.
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
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America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
