Annie Jacobsen Quotes

As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Studying
  • Boundless

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Man
  • Single
  • Slave

• The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Age
  • Me

• We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Hope
  • Health
  • Everything

• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Business
  • Today
  • Fear

• I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Girl

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beautiful

• I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Present

• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Small
  • Police
  • Bold

• somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso

  

  Eduardo Galeano

• Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Power
  • America
  • Awesome

• It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.

  

  James Wan
  • Dumb

• It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

  

  George Clooney
  • Proud
  • Film
  • Building

• My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

  

  Carolyn Meinel
  • Trying
  • Brother
  • Knows

• I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Energy
  • Dad
  • Friend

• Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that’s going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Left
  • Chinks
  • Kick Out

• As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

  

  Annie Jacobsen