Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

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• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Lifestyle

• Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Today
  • See
  • Situation

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Animal

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Really
  • Lucky
  • Superhero

• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Respect

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Patience

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Two
  • Expect
  • Maybe

• It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Up
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• I want to win, and I know I'm supposed to win, but I think the biggest thing for me is I have to do the best job I can do but then also enjoy it.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Job

• When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Jewelry

• The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Free
  • Positive

• I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Respect
  • Mentor