Winthrop Rockefeller Quotes
In them one can see the spontaneous-and often aesthetic-expression of a people reflected, not in a gilt-framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I was an expert horseman.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
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As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
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Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.
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Trump says very scary things - deporting immigrants, massive militarism and, you know, ignoring the climate. Well, Hillary, unfortunately, has a track record for doing all of those things.
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I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
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A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much. You know, we can't have that.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
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In them one can see the spontaneous-and often aesthetic-expression of a people reflected, not in a gilt-framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
