Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper (Eve) Quotes

I'm still a tomboy at heart. In high school, I was the girl in the baggy jeans and Timberlands, but I was also at the hairdresser's every week.

Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Book
  • Power

• A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Story
  • Conclusion
  • Truly

• You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Politics

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Practice

• No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Air

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, 'I never whitened a hair of her dear head, I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!' For of all the many things that you can think when you are a man, you had better have that by you, Woolwich!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hair

• Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Beautiful
  • Fire

• At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Career
  • Study

• What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.

  

  Christopher Golden
  • People
  • Perception

• Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

  

  John Witherspoon
  • Book

• Don't underestimate us nerds!

  

  Katsura Hoshino
  • Underestimate
  • Nerds

• I'm still a tomboy at heart. In high school, I was the girl in the baggy jeans and Timberlands, but I was also at the hairdresser's every week.

  

  Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • High School