Jacob K. Javits Quotes

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Jacob K. Javits

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • God
  • Human
  • King

• I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Father
  • Death

• I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Look

• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Sometimes
  • Profound
  • Wrong

• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Want
  • Doing
  • New York

• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Car
  • Driving

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • America
  • Words
  • Youth

• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Thankful
  • Blame

• The best way to really make the VPN issue a completely nonissue is through global licensing that we are continuing to pursue with our partners.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Way
  • Best
  • Best Way

• I'm sick of making bloody history.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • History
  • Sick
  • Making

• I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Law
  • Broken

• Great families of yesterday we show,And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Great
  • Parents

• I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Career

• When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Tired

• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Lying

• The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Kids
  • Reality

• Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

  

  Christopher Young
  • Good

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • People
  • Time

• I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

  

  Jacob K. Javits