John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Quotes
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
