Jeremy Heimans Quotes
You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
