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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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I'm not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.
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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.
