J. K. Simmons Quotes

I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Soul
  • Snow
  • Victim

• Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Start

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Support
  • Confidence

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Unique

• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Children
  • Healthy
  • Now

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Same
  • Possible

• Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Angels
  • Illness
  • Presence

• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Why

• Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • Really
  • Singer