Jacob K. Javits Quotes

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

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• I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Care

• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Air

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Good
  • Done
  • Education

• I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Money
  • Pain

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• You should not ask questions without knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Questions

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • People
  • Shoes

• I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Listening

• Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Exercise

• The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Reading

• My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

  

  Jacob K. Javits
  • Thinking