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David Rockefeller Quotes

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

David Rockefeller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 12, 1915 - March 20, 2017

Topics

Kindness Heart Service Small You

I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.

Anat Cohen

Fight Growing Up Army Growing Want

The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.

John Lasseter

Mountains People Down Nice Possible

When I met Christophe Waltz, I was so shy! I was like, 'Oh, hi! Um, I'm Stephanie!' He's one of my favorite actors.

Stephanie Sigman

Shy Favorite Like Hi He Oh

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.

Sophia Amoruso

Job Artist First Sandwich Subway

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.

Steven Holl

Work Good Survive Process Choose Go

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

Day Finance People Night Decisions

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Relationship People Driving Nails

Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado.

Molly Ivins

Hospitality You Strangers Find Even

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Michael Leunig

Mother Baby Duck You Know Will

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Interesting America Place Tell Lived

I love the music business very much.

Connie Smith

Love Business Music Music Business

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Bob Mayer

Fiction Entertainers Writers