Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

Jeffrey Kluger

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Work
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Done
  • Thought

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Goal
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Pledge

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Up
  • Courage
  • Grow

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Art
  • Way

• One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Couple

• In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Grow

• I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Party

• We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

  

  Daniel Beaty
  • Past
  • Change
  • Ourselves

• How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Distance

• I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

  

  Mark Harmon
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Passion
  • Pride

• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Science
  • Study
  • Sales