Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

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• I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Oil

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Good
  • Speak
  • Shopping

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • World
  • Energy

• Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Experience
  • Technology

• Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase - over socks - because your brain just goes, 'I just can't pack again. I can't.' You're looking at your suitcase going, 'I'm in five countries in two weeks, and it's four different seasons.' That's when my brain melts.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Different
  • Brain

• A happy player is a good player, I think.

  

  Curtis Joseph
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Player

• I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Attitude

• There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Family
  • Father
  • Peace

• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Challenge
  • Dumb