Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
Quotes to Explore
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
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My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
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The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
