Nelson Rockefeller Quotes

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

Nelson Rockefeller

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Child
  • Sister

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • Say

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Head
  • Europe
  • Top

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • America

• Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Science

• Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Positive

• I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Work
  • Focus

• I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Good
  • Support

• Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

  

  James Forman, Jr.

• So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

  

  Katherine Harris
  • Important
  • Support

• Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Opportunity
  • USSR

• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Spirit
  • Determination

• I’ve always believed the Spirit puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if that applies to eleven-year-old carjackers, but we’ll work with what the Spirit sends.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Reason
  • Spirit
  • Believed

• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Spirit
  • Financial
  • Cities