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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
Biz Stone -
Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
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In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
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Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything.' (Remarking on a power cut while in a bar in the Dominican Republic)
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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.
