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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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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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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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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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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I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.
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I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'
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I am very focused on making 2017 the best year ever for my fans, and Hydroxycut will play a big part in giving me a boost from my first show to the very last.
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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
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If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
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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.
