J. K. Simmons Quotes

Education is very important to me.

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Greatest
  • Cunning
  • None

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Effort
  • Optimistic

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Country
  • Laws
  • Vote

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Characters
  • Cash
  • Bitcoin

• One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • Accountability

• I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Simple
  • Army

• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Life
  • Running
  • Break

• My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Professional
  • Act

• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• Education is very important to me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Important
  • Education
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