Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Kay Redfield Jamison

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• I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Genre
  • Western

• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Political
  • Expressing
  • Darling

• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Earth

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Born

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

  

  Lake Bell
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Rest
  • Leaving

• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Feel

• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Moments

• I like to give back.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Like
  • Give
  • Back

• Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Famous
  • Loved
  • Wrestling

• One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

  

  Colin Firth
  • World

• To move past fear is a cliche.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Fear
  • Move
  • Cliche

• When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

  

  Don McLean
  • Road
  • Celebrity

• It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

  

  Gerald May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Attitude

• If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison