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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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I am not as simple as I look.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
Kacey Musgraves
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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 -
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
Patrick McHenry -
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 -
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
Kacey Musgraves -
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston -
Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
Baruch Spinoza
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I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
Leonard Baskin -
The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.
P.B. Kerr -
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
Ban Ki-moon -
We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches -
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.