John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play -I dropped the worry on the way -And God was good to me every day.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play -I dropped the worry on the way -And God was good to me every day.
