David Rubenstein quote: "I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money."

Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it ta...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing a...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Sa...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.&...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Of course Ken Starr was the leader of the impeachment movement against Bill Clinton and we are not p...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

German political leaders and business leaders should encourage more German private equity firms to g...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

There is too much money at stake. At some point, somebody will blink and work out a compromise. If n...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I wouldn't be surprised if returns came down eventually but I don't know what would be the precipita...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

This has been a golden age for our industry but nothing continues to be golden forever.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Last spring at our general body meeting we took a poll of 50 students and Carville was the top choic...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

The [campaign] will continue until the U.S. and international communities have taken the necessary a...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I think that we have a good chance to still buy it.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

This may be the most profitable private equity deal of all time.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Europe is more attractive than the U.S. and Asia, where there are fewer opportunities for restructur...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions an...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and w...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much mo...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give i...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven'...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN

Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. Combine this new res...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

All-American' looks very different today than it did twenty years ago, and I felt that that wasn't b...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

At this age, some are following trends-- there will be those who want to wear the latest thing from ...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

The trouser is looser but it's tailored and has a flat front so it doesn't look frumpy, so kids will...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

If you were a South Asian girl, you would have thought you didn't exist in this country if you looke...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

Tweens are at the place in life where they are beginning to assert their independence from mom and d...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size 6's. Everyone is beautiful, it's...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

It doesn't make good business sense to stay the same. Girls today have so many different role models...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

It's important for our readers to see themselves reflected in Seventeen and Chelsea has that fresh f...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

There's a lot of talk if a seventh-grade girl returns in September all 'gothed out' or 'skatered out...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

A lot of [my players] are in club programs. They are volleyball hounds. If they aren't practicing, t...
ALLAN RUBENSTEIN

In the past, we have had dominating players, but this year we are strong across the board. We don't ...
ALLAN RUBENSTEIN

We are hoping for a third trip [to the state tournament].
ALLAN RUBENSTEIN

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

You have to be very careful. Girls have to remember, everybody has to remember, that your spring bre...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming mo...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

'All-American' looks very different today than it did twenty years ago, and I felt that that wasn't ...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN

Richard will not let his coverage be determined by anything he may have received for free, or any ot...
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

I don't think anybody is carrying anything inside. If anything, it's a good place for shaky hands.
HAL RUBENSTEIN

The girlishness and winsomeness (of spring and summer) have given way to a very adult approach to dr...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

The girlishness and winsomeness [of spring and summer] have given way to a very adult approach to dr...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

If the script is sharp and witty, the movie will offer an inside peek into an industry that fascinat...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

The girlishness and winsomeness [of spring and summer] have given way to a very adult approach to dr...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

If the script is sharp and witty, the movie will offer an inside peek into an industry that fascinat...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

The girlishness and winsomeness (of spring and summer) have given way to a very adult approach to dr...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

It's a strong departure for her. She's always done pretty, but there is a strong element of craft an...
HAL RUBENSTEIN

In 16 years of experience I've had two clients who have bought and used a multi-station piece of equ...
IRV RUBENSTEIN

There is no brand new stuff out there. It's just being applied to different populations.
IRV RUBENSTEIN

Stability is nice, but to bench press a heavier weight, you've got to have a bench.
IRV RUBENSTEIN

He doesn't care to discuss the Devil Rays' situation.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

He'll pay whatever attention is needed.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

He expects to be back within a week or so. He told me he had his hurricane go-bag all packed and rea...
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

They are coming up with quick fixes. They are trying to play catch up.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

out of respect we will not be doing anything for the moment.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

It was the common thought that New York was doomed.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

noted that Joe Torre took full responsibility. That's what Joe Torre said. That's what Steinbrenner ...
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

It is a tribute to her reign and the ongoing friendship between our two nations.
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

As Global Crossing announced in May, a company-sponsored plan is being developed for submission alon...
HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

It's like all the other aspects of detainee treatment -- there's been no transparency whatsoever.
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

The allegations are of quite startling brutality in the implementation of force-feeding. Yet there's...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

The ethical standard is pretty much universal. It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in ...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

If you look at the obligations of the health professions and doctors in particular, UN standards, Wo...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

I think its a flawed basis, ... All the facts suggest there are things they didnt look into. We ...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

I think it's a flawed basis. All the facts suggest there are things they didn't look into. We know w...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN

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

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY

You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

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David Rubenstein

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

David Rubenstein

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