Hank Green Quotes

Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.

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• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • World
  • Music
  • Travel

• Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Environment
  • Everything

• I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Believe
  • Ambition
  • Modeling

• If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

  

  Malcolm X
  • Giving

• The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • People

• Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

  

  Selena
  • Model

• As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • People
  • Wall

• It's hard to understand how people can walk away from their homes and assume that their animal will fend for itself. We are the providers - the ones who need to provide the warmth, the protection, the food, the water.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Food
  • Water

• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Thinking
  • Free
  • Wall

• Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

  

  H. C. Moolenburgh
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.

  

  Hank Green
  • World
  • Human Beings
  • Assumptions