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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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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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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To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
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What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.
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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
