Yelena Bonner Quotes
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.Yelena Bonner
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
Adam Grant -
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
Gary Ackerman -
The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
Victor LaValle -
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
Frances Beinecke -
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
Barry Ritholtz -
The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
Maggie Hassan -
I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
Zach Galligan -
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
Malcolm X -
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon -
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
Ireland Baldwin
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
Rakul Preet Singh -
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
Marc Andreesen -
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
Sam Mendes -
I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten -
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
Carlos Ghosn -
Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
J. B. Pritzker
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
Laura Dern -
I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
Charlie Kaufman -
I look for people that are emitting a nice energy about them. Like, they're dancing to the house music or they have a robot puppet aura. But it's hard. People you think are going to be good end up getting really drunk and then who knows what's going to happen.
Alex Toth -
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda -
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
Napoleon Hill -
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
Yelena Bonner