Jeremy Heimans Quotes

Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Jeremy Heimans

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I want to star in an action-comedy, like 'The Rock' or 'Con Air.' Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.

Jermaine Fowler

WantMoviesRockKidAirCon

It's weird: I always feel like my career is about to end. Like someone is coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I need to find a better balance, but without my work, I don't think I would be alive. If I don't work, I don't live.

Mauro Ranallo

WorkLiveBalanceMeThinkBetter

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

TimeFoodCookingMePaintingChef

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

HappyCountryHumanNobleGreatest

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

Stanley Hauerwas

LearningMyselfReadingChristian

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Ron Chernow

TimeFinanceWorldYouBackWall

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau

StarsCultureBoyRockOldMay

I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

CM Punk

MyselfDayDoingMeasureYesterday

The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

PeopleMeWritingProblemsWarm

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

ChangeCouragePeopleWillNever

In business, you try to solve problems.

Bob Corker

BusinessProblemsYouTrySolve

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Tillie Olsen

MyselfEnoughKnowDivideWho

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