Laurance Rockefeller Quotes
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.
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*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
