Eugene Jarecki Quotes

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Eugene Jarecki

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• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Better
  • I Can
  • Score

• If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • You
  • Principles

• And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Team
  • Learn
  • Pressure

• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Think
  • Soccer

• For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Study

• It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • World
  • Work
  • Crazy

• In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Worked
  • Adam
  • Billy

• I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Crazy

• We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Law
  • Stop

• Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Country
  • America

• I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

  

  Annie Potts
  • School
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Black

• Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Great
  • Father
  • Free

• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  

  John Spratt
  • War
  • Partner

• I have a regret that the entire discussion with El Chapo... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

  

  Sean Penn
  • War
  • Regret
  • Policy

• What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • War
  • Black
  • Progress