Judith Rodin Quotes
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
-
Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
-
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
-
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
-
My journey has been that of a character actor.
-
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
-
Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
-
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
-
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
-
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
-
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
-
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
-
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
-
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
-
I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
-
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.
-
We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.
-
And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride.
-
As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
-
Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
-
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.
