Jacob Young Quotes

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.

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• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Nice

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Rubbish
  • Israeli

• I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Ship

• I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nice
  • Comedy
  • Moral

• I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Cook

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • God
  • Victory

• What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Listening

• Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Road

• The psychotherapist … tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

  

  Alan Watts
  • World
  • Help
  • Giving

• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  

  Ayn Rand

• And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

  

  Claude McKay

• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Believe
  • Action

• Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Heart
  • Light

• Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Science
  • Sound
  • Issue

• This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People

• The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

  

  Paul Di Filippo
  • Internet
  • Writer
  • Abilities

• I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Black

• As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Funny

• Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.

  

  Jacob Young