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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Feminist

• The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Desire
  • Bed
  • Seriously

• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Live

• I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter.  A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Today
  • Challenge
  • Cancer

• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• 'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

  

  Jodi Rell
  • Support
  • Angry

• But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Recognize
  • Younger

• There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

  

  Chris Jordan

• I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Artist
  • Driving
  • Strategy

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

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson