Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

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• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Day
  • Boy
  • Child

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Tattoos

• I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Time
  • Running
  • Easy

• To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Me
  • Pleasure
  • Intellectual

• I joined a band to hit things.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Band
  • Things
  • Hit

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • World
  • Crazy

• I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Myself

• Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • Together
  • Friend

• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture

• What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Ann Curry: You know the American people are suffering watching -Mrs. Bush: Believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Why

• The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Weakness
  • Ideals

• Hey Uncle SamPut your name at the top of his listAnd the Statue of LibertyStarted shaking her fist.And the eagle will flyMan, it's gonna be hellWhen you hear Mother FreedomStart ringing her bellAnd it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on youBrought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.

  

  Toby Keith
  • World
  • Mother
  • Red

• I'm obsessed with muffins.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin

• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin