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 love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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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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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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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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If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.
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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
