Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayelet Waldman

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• Giving

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Kind
  • Day

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Wealth

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Advertising

• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Business
  • Day
  • Oil

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Truth
  • Accept
  • Substitutes

• I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Giving
  • Basketball
  • Rings

• There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that moment, something like a spell invariably descends over the celebrants, and everyone stares into the doorway, trying to make out the quiet movements of the prophet as he glides his way in and takes the empty seat among us.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Door

• I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Learning

• From another side: is Achilles possible with powder and lead? Or the Iliad with the printing press, not to mention the printing machine? Do not the song and saga of the muse necessarily come to an end with the printer's bar, hence do not the necessary conditions of epic poetry vanish?

  

  Karl Marx
  • Song
  • Poetry

• Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Giving