James Chanos Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
-
J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
-
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
-
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
-
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
-
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
-
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-
Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
-
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
-
As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
-
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
-
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
-
I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
-
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
-
I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
-
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
-
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
-
When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.
-
Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.
-
Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow.
-
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
-
My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.
-
People who lose money always need someone to blame.
