BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes

Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Day
  • Like
  • Start

• I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Want

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Friend

• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Walls

• I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Prepare
  • Improviser

• I work hard and support myself.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Work
  • Support
  • Myself

• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Destiny

• For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Time
  • World
  • Famous

• What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • People
  • Control

• Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Work
  • Failure