David Rockefeller Quotes

Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.

David Rockefeller

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LifeI AmMy LifeStudentImportant

I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.

Joe Kennedy III

TimeUnderstandingHealthcareMercy

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

Jenny Shipley

OceanIdentityWorldRememberOwn

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

Jenna Wortham

WorkTechnologyFocusLateNewTool

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Michael Douglas

LifeFamilyDivorcePersonNothing

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Steven Wright

FunnyMirrorPeopleWorldThink

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Tom Verlaine

LoveLove IsSongWholeVenus

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

PathDesignFinalDifferentDozen

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Louise Mensch

WritingYouSeriousBreakLawsOnce

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Josef Albers

ColorsGroundOwnInfluencesHue

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

Jonah Hill

TimeFoolYourselfMeBabyThink

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

Brendon Urie

MusicSoulNewStealingUsedIdea

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

AngerFightMadBedGoNever

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