Jeremy Heimans Quotes
Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
