Alan Briskin Quotes

Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other, that we can indeed care for each other and the physical planet we share.

Alan Briskin

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• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Care
  • Study

• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Care
  • Pride

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Losses
  • Anymore

• I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mom
  • Care
  • Voice

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Care
  • Baby
  • Hockey

• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Care
  • Land

• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Health

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Care

• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Women
  • Man
  • Care

• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • World
  • Music
  • Care

• We came out and took care of business and that's the sign of a good team, coming out and making adjustments.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Business
  • Team
  • Care

• For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.

  

  Bill Drummond Big in Japan
  • Day
  • Tea

• They said no future forget it You came from the wrong side of town I said don't listen don't let it Let it bring you down Make you wear a frown.

  

  Dieter Bohlen Modern Talking
  • Forget It
  • Wrong Side
  • Frown

• Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other, that we can indeed care for each other and the physical planet we share.

  

  Alan Briskin
  • Care
  • Capacity
  • Each Other