Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
  • Worry
  • Uncertainty

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Women
  • Done
  • Choices

• I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Enough

• Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Black
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Women
  • High

• '...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Faith
  • Islamic

• Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mind
  • Single

• Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Sea
  • Waves

• 'No,' said Miss Marple. 'Murder isn’t a game.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Game

• Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Remember

• Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • Think
  • Know
  • Information

• We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he possesses. They are in us, and they make us God's embryo, We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.

  

  George F. Richards
  • Children
  • Obedience
  • Righteousness

• To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy - a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Animal

• If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Man
  • Pleasure

• He who would travel happy must travel lite.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Happy
  • Travel
  • Lite

• I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins