Nelson Rockefeller Quotes
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.
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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
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If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
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They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
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Mercury dropped the purple car and shot up into the air, whistling like a shooting star. The woman in the car next to me looked up at me like I was a superhero. I smiled at her and jumped down, trying to be smooth. I landed wrong and went sliding on my face. I glanced back at her. She appeared less impressed than before.
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If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
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The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'
