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.
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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.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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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.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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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.
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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.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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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.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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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.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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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.
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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.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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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.
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You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.
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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.
