As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.


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Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER III
My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY
I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY
People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY
The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE