Jenna Wortham Quotes

It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.

Jenna Wortham

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
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• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
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• Accept loss forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Forever
  • Loss
  • Accept

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
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  • Fun

• I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Very

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Mathematics

• I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

  

  Louise Penny
  • People
  • Hate
  • Deep

• If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Guy
  • Worry
  • Successful

• Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

  

  John Scofield
  • Smile

• It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • People
  • Color
  • Police