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

• 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.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• 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

• I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Dream
  • Teenager

• I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Hug

• It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Hip Hop

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

  

  Jeremy Rifkin