Jerry Greenfield Quotes
Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.
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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.
