Jennifer Hyman Quotes

When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • English
  • Degree
  • Academic

• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Will
  • Against

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sports
  • Red
  • Professional

• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Successful
  • Accepting
  • Premises

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• Every experience makes you a man.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Experience

• We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Community

• Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • High
  • Quality
  • Value

• When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
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