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

• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Anger
  • Loneliness
  • Insecurity

• 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

• Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Understanding

• Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• 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