Gillian Jacobs Quotes

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

Gillian Jacobs

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LifeI AmKindLivingMy OwnClean

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

John Dewey

GoodHeartBadGood IntentionsDeeds

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever

GoodWritingPromisesEgoThings

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound.

Stew

ArtRomanticThinkEndSoundReally

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Stacy Schiff

WorldWealthModernModern WorldDid

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Steven Levitt

BusinessPressureFeelGivingDoing

The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

Steve Wynn

LifeGoodGood LifeExtraordinary

We need more missionaries - more worthy missionaries.

Russell M. Nelson

MoreNeedWorthyMissionaries

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Judd Nelson

FunnyLightSuicideBackGoSee

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton

LifeSuccessTimeThinkKeyRoll

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Whyte

PoetrySocietyFaceInterestingJust

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Brent Scowcroft

UnderstandSeptemberMustIncredible

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Seth Shostak

KnowledgeScienceIdeasThoughts

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