Marlon James Quotes

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

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• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Labor
  • Intuitive
  • Courting

• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Society
  • Free
  • Past

• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • People
  • Business
  • Past

• I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kids
  • Loved
  • Films

• The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Age
  • Small
  • Team

• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • American
  • Cinema
  • Crown

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Good
  • Law
  • Christian

• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Thinking
  • American

• I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • World
  • Why
  • Today

• Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• She shall be my queen, and I her most ardent admirer and protector. A new standard of love shall be established for the ages. Time will clarify my devotion! On this I would gladly stake my very soul!

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Soul
  • Queen
  • Devotion

• I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate.

  

  Niki Taylor
  • Grateful
  • Donate
  • Donors

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• At the fourth flight Lila did something unexpected. She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Forever
  • Changed
  • Flight

• What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

  

  Marlon James