Eugene Jarecki Quotes

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

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• I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Moments

• I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Important
  • Action

• I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

  

  David Chase
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Gay
  • Connection

• I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Effort

• Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Experience

• One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

  

  Erez Lieberman Aiden
  • Different
  • Why

• The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Bad

• I think that some works are more accessible than others.

  

  Jim Hodges

• When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

  

  Doug Flutie
  • Today
  • Door

• My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Hate
  • Things
  • Child

• The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Best
  • Quiet
  • Diet

• Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Time
  • Religious
  • Childhood

• The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

  

  David Nail
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dream

• We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Fashion
  • Learned
  • Corruption