Jasmine Guy Quotes

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

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• My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Opinion
  • Media
  • Too Much

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Work
  • Important
  • Hope

• I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Up

• The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Wise
  • Teaching
  • Talking

• Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Time
  • Home

• Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Bad
  • Insecurity

• The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Insecurity