Laurance Rockefeller Quotes
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.Laurance Rockefeller
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Caitlin Moran -
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
Ed Westwick -
My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
Laura Linney -
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
Gavin Newsom -
I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
Jack Ma -
You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
Pat Benatar -
The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.
Jack London -
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
C. S. Lewis
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Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.
Ai Weiwei -
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
Kevin Ayers -
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
Dominic Cooper -
I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
Jodie Sweetin -
No matter our background, we all have crazy families.
Kevin Kwan -
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
Marianne Faithfull
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
Kami Garcia -
Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.
George Halas -
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.
Rowan Williams -
I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.
Steve Zahn -
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.
Laurance Rockefeller