Eugene Jarecki Quotes

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Future
  • See
  • Games

• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Body

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Better
  • Order

• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Family
  • Parents

• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Science

• I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Great
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Struggling

• As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Home
  • Moral

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Feeling

• In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • Men
  • Women

• I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

  

  Jimmy Piersall
  • Hurt

• Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • World
  • Age
  • Black

• I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • History
  • Church

• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • God
  • Marriage

• There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • Hope
  • House
  • Words

• All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

  

  Meister Eckhart
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Son

• It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • History
  • Education
  • Repeat