Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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You ride in a limousine the first time, it’s a big thrill but after that it’s just a stupid car.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
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In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it was out, did somebody call it back in. It turns out to be a pretty good indicator of how relevant the work is at that time.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.
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I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.
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Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.
