N. K. Jemisin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
-
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-
I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
-
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
-
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
-
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
-
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
-
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
-
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
-
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
-
We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
-
You have to be quite stupid to act.
-
We in the Congress Party are hoping to do greater efforts to help the people of India, especially the downtrodden who find it very tough to get ahead in life. We are focusing on tackling issues related to unemployment and poverty.
-
I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.
-
I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.
-
You need a spiritual foundation. Something that allows you to see how you connect to the rest of the universe. It's simple stuff, but it's hard.
-
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
-
What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
