J. R. Ramirez Quotes

I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.

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• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Food

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Company

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Character
  • Sister
  • Office

• I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • World
  • Forever

• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.

  

  Keith Haring
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Nature
  • Reflection
  • Profound

• As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Die

• I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Nature