J. K. Simmons Quotes

Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

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• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

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• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
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• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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• I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

  

  Kanye West
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• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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  • Unique

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
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• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

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• There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.

  

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• When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

  

  Matt de la Pena
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• If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• What I cannot stand in the behaviour of the E.U. with regard to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat.

  

  Marine Le Pen
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• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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