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

• I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Job
  • Running

• It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • World
  • Success
  • Quality

• The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

  

  Charles Finch
  • World
  • Looks
  • Snow

• Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

  

  Beverley Mitchell
  • Up
  • College

• 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