John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

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• My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Health
  • Myself
  • motivation

• I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Things
  • Where
  • Through

• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Trust
  • Cool

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Life
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Kindness
  • Our

• It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Women
  • True
  • Want

• I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Enough
  • Young
  • Rival

• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Public
  • Vice
  • Amusements

• The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Good
  • Great
  • Success

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Campaign

• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • World
  • Best
  • Building

• Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Good

• Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People

• I think I've got the best staff in television.

  

  Phil McGraw

• The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Express

• I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Interesting
  • Fall
  • Moments

• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  

  John D. Rockefeller