John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Quotes

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • Want
  • Rock

• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Want
  • Value

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Profound

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Beginning
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Need

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• I have a very high metabolism, and I have to constantly eat to keep on going.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • High

• OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doing a charity show with Michael Jackson. You and I have both demonstrated some of the hidden powers of the mind and it would be interesting to hear, David, how you explain some of your incredible achievements.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Football

• I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • God
  • She
  • Help

• I thought today’s women were independent and had a lot of sexual freedom. ... Well, I guess they fooled me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Women
  • Today
  • Freedom

• Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  • Independent
  • Charity
  • Injurious