Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Evil
  • Potential

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Looking Forward

• If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Government
  • Simplicity

• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • King
  • Inequality
  • Racial

• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • World
  • Business
  • Experience

• I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Kids
  • Better
  • Win

• Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Feminist

• All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Soul
  • Community
  • Kind

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • May
  • Action

• The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Awesome

• His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

  

  Ann Wroe
  • Everything
  • Resolved
  • Being One

• I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson