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David Rockefeller Quotes

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Rockefeller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Art Believe Museum Taste Role

I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.

Data Go Way Collection Other Mass

The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.

Life Angry People Blame Immigrants

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.

Sonny Bill Williams

Family Training Week Young Boy

I was first hired at Staples in 1992, by company founder Tom Stemberg and eventual CEO Ron Sargent, to be the first director of marketing and merchandising for the catalog business.

Business Marketing First Director

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

Mother Death Child Growing Up Think

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

Father Culture Struggle Me Speak

I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.

Love Good Business Me Important Own

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

Men Voice You More Write Melody

Rather than realizing immediate physiological gain, the challenge is more about reducing the mental attrition from the two days to maximize each event.

Challenge More Two Days Mental Gain

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

Good Think Comedy You Look Down

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

Life Islam Height Cat Popularity

Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.

Alone Trust Team Fighting Lonely

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