Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper (Eve) Quotes

I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Early

• Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Wise
  • Countries

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Song
  • Action

• Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Men
  • Earth

• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Stop
  • Picture
  • Fate

• We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Space

• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Age

• Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • God

• Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

  

  Mason Cooley

• When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • American

• Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

  

  Dario Fo
  • War

• There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  

  Bob Harper
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• I don't claim to be some Aaron Sorkin expert, but it is like a Camelot. His shows are a place where people are trying to reach their highest potential. And I think we miss that sometimes. If I got a chance to do 'The Newsroom,' I would have done it yesterday.

  

  Dule Hill
  • People
  • Trying
  • Done

• I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • American
  • Game
  • Dream

• I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

  

  Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Groupie