"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally."

-- David Rockefeller

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“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”
“I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.”
“My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread”
“I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.”
“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”

Source : "Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs, Volume 1". Book by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822; later quoted in Horatio Townsend "An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin" (p. 93), 1852.
“Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.”
“Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day.”
“I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.”

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