Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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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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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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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've always been able to put things in perspective.
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There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.
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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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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
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One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
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You must shun barbarians and not govern them since, barbarians as they are, it is not right that they should receive a benefit.
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I drive every day. I like to gamble.
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Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
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Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.
