Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

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

Jeremy Rifkin

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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

• I've got to tell you, 25 years ago, I believe that in this country, we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people. We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill. So that struggles continues.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Daily

• My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

  

  William Goldman
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Names

• I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, “I hate the rich.” From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don’t raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Kids
  • I Hate
  • Cars

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

  

  Jeremy Rifkin