Nora Volkow Quotes

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

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• Oakland kids are always the best.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Always

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Long
  • Stand

• I'm not against gay people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Gay
  • Against

• Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...

  

  Laura Nyro
  • World
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Great
  • War
  • Funny

• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wisdom
  • Fool

• People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • America

• A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music
  • Song
  • Dream

• We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

  

  Du Yun
  • Different

• What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Life

• I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up

• I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

  

  Clara Hughes
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Excellence

• One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

  

  Dudley Field Malone
  • Good

• When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Dream

• If the political will is there, we can solve anything.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Political

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Stop
  • Crying

• The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • World
  • Stop
  • Singing

• The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Stop
  • Addiction
  • Essence