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.
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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.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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I have a love for boxing.
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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.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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I joined a band to hit things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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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?
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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.
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Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
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The rottenness comes from within.
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You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you're not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to do. There's shopping, entertainment, all different types of people ... it's really a great atmosphere.
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That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.
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I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
