Jenny Zhang Quotes

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Crazy

• I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Death
  • Loved

• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Saying

• At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Voice
  • Lonely

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Eye

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Training
  • Embarrassed

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Work
  • Great
  • Children

• A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • People
  • Important
  • Amazing

• You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • People

• To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Choices

• White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Color