Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

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• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Learning
  • Play
  • Songs

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• Anything's possible in politics.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Politics
  • Possible
  • Anything

• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • School
  • Respect
  • Peace

• I've been to Chennai several times for modelling shows and shooting ad films. It's a great place to come back to because the people are warm and welcoming. I've never had the opportunity to actually see the city, but whatever places I've been to have really caught my attention.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mistake
  • Record

• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• Friday, 14 March,

  

  Yves Klein
  • March
  • Friday

• The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Party

• I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • God
  • Angel

• These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Movie

• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Organization
  • Holocaust

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• Young people want you to be real with them.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Real
  • Want

• I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Real
  • Friend
  • Facebook