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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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.
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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.
