John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.

John Benjamin Hickey

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• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• I understand how the economy actually works.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Understand
  • Economy
  • How

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Business
  • Being
  • Consumer

• Taj has been described as having been designed by giants and finished by jewellers.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • Power

• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Emotional
  • Habit
  • Search

• Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Long
  • She
  • Night

• It’s been twenty years-we didn’t even talk at Kurt's funeral. None of us. And so, twenty years of me getting Yoko-bashed, and Dave bashing, and me bashing and making it worse, all that shit. The legal stuff, the trial. We just buried it. It was really deep. It brings tears to my eyes to even talk about it.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Eyes
  • Deep
  • Tears

• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Long
  • Career

• In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

  

  Maurice Baring

• I think that things happen for a reason.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Racism

• I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Lawyer

• I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

  

  Chris Pratt

• Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Meaning
  • Unspoiled

• When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • Lawyer