David Rubenstein Quotes

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

David Rubenstein

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It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

Jess Weixler

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When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

Jennifer Grey

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Water's never clumsy.

Matthew McConaughey

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I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

Anna Kournikova

LifeLoveWorldBetterDoingYou

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Sid Meier

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I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

Domhnall Gleeson

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Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Dee Hock

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Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

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I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

Bruce Babbitt

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I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

Ari Graynor

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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Sylvia Plath

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I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Zumthor

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