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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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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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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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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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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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
