Sebastian Junger Quotes

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• 'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Movie

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • World
  • Country
  • Grow

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Change
  • Waiting

• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • May
  • Man
  • Reality

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • War
  • Inspired

• On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Girl

• The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Chinese
  • Capitalism

• If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Gun
  • Brotherhood

• Before I moved to the Isle of Wight, I lived in the suburbs of London and saw 'Fantasia,' and it scared the living daylights out of me. And I didn't go back to the movies until many years later to see a Lasse Hallstrom film.

  

  Donna Langley

• We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

  

  Mark Rutte

• The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • May
  • Church

• If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • World

• The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Children
  • Wife

• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking