Nelson Rockefeller Quotes
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?
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You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good
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Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.
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If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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We can do nothing without prayer.
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
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I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
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I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
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Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.
