Jacob K. Javits Quotes

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

Jacob K. Javits

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• 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

• 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

• I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Life
  • Great

• I love Lena Dunham. I love, love, love her.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Life
  • Death
  • Desire

• Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'

  

  Ben Carson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Progress

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

  

  Jacob K. Javits