J. K. Simmons Quotes

I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Future
  • See
  • Turkey

• I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
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  • Surrender

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  

  Kate Upton
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• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
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  • Bad

• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Something
  • Selling
  • Clients

• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Government
  • Border

• I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Me
  • Walking

• A good example is far better than a good precept.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Good

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Gay
  • Politics
  • Late

• I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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• I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Time
  • Future
  • Party

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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