Clemantine Wamariya Quotes

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Clemantine Wamariya

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WordsEnoughWillNeverDestruction

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

AgeOpportunityDebateNowUpBring

When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

Jenova Chen

LifePowerResponsibilitySchool

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

GoodGoldMeanDollarUsedLast

No matter what position you're in, if you are receiving poor feedback from clients, co-workers, or in performance evaluations, then that's one of the clearest signs that you're not cut out for the job, or it's not right for you.

John Rampton

JobPerformanceFeedbackYouPoor

Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, 'He's finished. He's not going to come back.' There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.

Amir Khan

FightPeopleMeSayingBetterYou

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Trevor Noah

NatureSimplePurposePeopleThink

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

Tony Judt

LifePeopleMy LifeYoungBecome

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Rufus Wainwright

FamousFriendsGoPlacesFactBart

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

LiveWritingThoughtPresentYou

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Drew Barrymore

MomRealEverythingHands-OnReally

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

Wolfman Jack

MeFakeEnoughCountryEarnSmooth

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

Peter York

ReadingFeelEnoughYouKnowRun

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