Richard Jenkins Quotes

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richard Jenkins

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Great
  • Future
  • Commitment

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Better

• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Change

• I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Innovation
  • Meaningful

• We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Meaningful

• In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • May
  • Society
  • Meaningful

• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Life
  • Society
  • Progress

• Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Interesting
  • Meaningful

• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • History
  • Architecture
  • Meaningful

• Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I believe there is no natural ceiling on the revenue Twitter can generate. I also believe that Twitter's reach can become more pervasive and its impact on the world more meaningful.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • World
  • Believe
  • Meaningful

• Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • World
  • Professional
  • Meaningful

• The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Life
  • Age
  • Food

• The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

  

  Antwone Fisher
  • People
  • Time
  • Meaningful

• Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

  

  David Brock
  • Trying
  • Money

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.

  

  Joss Whedon
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Hiking

• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  

  Richard Jenkins
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