Nelson Rockefeller Quotes
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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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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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.
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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 go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.
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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
