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.
-
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
-
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.
-
I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.
-
I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.
-
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
-
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
-
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.
