Jonathan Klein Quotes

I'm a big proponent of accountability.

Jonathan Klein

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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • More
  • Where
  • Egypt

• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Think
  • Control

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Learning

• The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Reality

• I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• All history is modern history.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • History

• The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Technology

• I definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Book

• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Life
  • Father
  • Challenge

• I always thought I was really thick.

  

  Jeremy Gilley

• There is no new wave, only the sea.

  

  Claude Chabrol
  • Sea

• I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

  

  Kim Cattrall

• I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

  

  Shakira
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

  

  Don Nelson
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Career

• Not even many NFL offenses have been like this.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • NFL
  • Offenses

• Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Sex
  • Killed
  • Jail

• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • School
  • True
  • Strong

• I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Story
  • Touch
  • Proponent

• I'm a big proponent of accountability.

  

  Jonathan Klein
  • Accountability
  • Proponent