Beverly Jenkins Quotes

Because you’re the county’s matriarch. You’re loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don’t put your people through that.

Beverly Jenkins

• People
• Family
• Respected
• Matriarch

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• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• 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
  • People
  • Small
  • Progress

• My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • School
  • Together

• That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Sex
  • Humor

• Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • World
  • End

• People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Live
  • Community

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fight

• If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • Family
  • School
  • Friends

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Doubt
  • Dead

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

  

  Sam Smith
  • See
  • Old
  • London

• Because you’re the county’s matriarch. You’re loved, respected, and there may not be enough of you left for your family to bury if we have to extract you from a flipped over, burning truck. Don’t put your people through that.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • People
  • Family
  • Respected