John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am a Zionist.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I was very sexual from a very young age.
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[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
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I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
