John D. Rockefeller Quotes
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
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At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
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Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.
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I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
