Margo Jefferson Quotes
All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.
Quotes to Explore
-
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
-
Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
-
Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
-
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
-
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
-
I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
-
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
-
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
-
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
-
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
-
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
-
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
-
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
-
The unknown is always frightening.
-
I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
-
My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
-
It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
-
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
-
When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
-
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
-
There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.
-
Most people that book me want me to sound like me, so like I said before, I have a style. But for my sake I try not to keep redoing the same thing. Once again it’s down to the song and what I hear for it. I find it a good challenge!
-
I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.
-
All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.
