Hope Jahren Quotes

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.

Hope Jahren

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WomenLiveSafetyWorldRiskTurn

'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it.

Jessie J

MomentEnoughTalkingDoubtYouRun

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Jiang Zemin

PoliticsTalkStudyAboutPositively

You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

Jeremy Clarkson

PeopleWorldStoryInternetYouOut

I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

Mehcad Brooks

SchoolCollegeThoughtYouActing

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

MyselfWritingTraditionPovertySee

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Matthew Pearl

VillainBookNegativeStoryPowerful

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

Steve Ballmer

ChanceiPhoneShareGoingMarket

If you look back to 2008, people didn't have smartphones. Now everyone essentially has a smartphone.

Steve Mollenkopf

PeopleYouLookBackNowEveryone

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

Tommy Hilfiger

BrandClothesYouKnowLifestyle

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Robertson Davies

LovePassionCommon SenseSeekSense

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.

Robert T. Bakker

LifeHistoryMeStoryStrongImpact

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

Joshua Bell

GreatPeopleThinkWrongNewGoing

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