Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
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• You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

  

  Sammy Sosa
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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
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• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Up
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• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
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• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
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• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
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• What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

  

  Valeria Mazza
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• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Look, they ridiculed Jesus Christ, so I'm certainly no exception.

  

  Tyronn Lue
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• A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand

• Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
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  • Mind
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• I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Political
  • September

• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Political