Jami Gertz Quotes
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
-
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
-
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
-
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
-
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
-
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
-
I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
-
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
-
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
-
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
-
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
-
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
-
I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
-
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
-
I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
-
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
-
Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
-
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
-
As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.
-
Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
-
I like a good old thriller.
-
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
