Jeremy Heimans Quotes

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

Jeremy Heimans

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Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible.

Michio Kaku

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When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.

Michael Mullen

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I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Michael Schur

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I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner

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My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Josef Albers

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My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

Drew Barrymore

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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

Doreen Cronin

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And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

DeForest Soaries

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I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Ashley Johnson

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Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!

William Lloyd Garrison

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'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

Phyllis Logan

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Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the greatest value for shareholders, stakeholders, and society at large.

Punit Renjen

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