Margaret Mead Quotes

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Business
  • Lot
  • Accomplished

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • God
  • Love
  • Help

• I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • God
  • Together
  • Earth

• There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

  

  Marge Kennedy
  • Life
  • Important
  • Earth

• I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

  

  David Bailey
  • Life
  • Women

• Angolans who repatriate overseas funds and invest in the economy, companies that generate goods, services, and jobs won't be harassed. No questions will be asked about why their money was abroad, and they won't face legal prosecution.

  

  Joao Lourenco
  • Money
  • Why

• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Life
  • Time
  • Jump