Marlon James Quotes

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

Marlon James

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• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Partnerships

• What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Great
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Young
  • Bloody

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Musicians

• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Better

• There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

  

  Kevin Pollak
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Comedy

• As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Space
  • Moon

• I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Romantic

• Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • Kids
  • Dance
  • Romantic

• We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

  

  Marlon James
  • Romantic
  • Rejection