Jane Jacobs Quotes

I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.

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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Healthy

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Years
  • New
  • Ice

• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Too Much

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Design

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Single
  • Solution
  • Eradicate

• Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Ideas
  • Down
  • Borrowing

• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Nature
  • Economic
  • Medicine

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

  

  Kevin Sorbo

• The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Nature
  • Achievement

• I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Taught
  • Seldom
  • Mention

• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Found
  • Questions

• I can't bear kissing scenes.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kissing
  • Bear
  • Scenes

• I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.

  

  Jane Jacobs