Jennifer Flavin Quotes

I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

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• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Mind
  • End
  • Place

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Help
  • Realize

• Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Down

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fear
  • You
  • Scared

• It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Running

• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Care
  • Short

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Filmmaker

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • You
  • Like
  • Move

• I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voiceovers.

  

  Justin Long
  • School
  • Jobs
  • Voiceover

• You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Work

• Already in 1915, Sophie Taeuber his wife divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period. She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Work
  • She
  • Wife

• It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Judging

• I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

  

  Jennifer Flavin
  • Serious