Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

  

  Carl Forti
  • World
  • Help
  • Him

• We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Believe
  • Opportunities

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Enjoy

• There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Women
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Country

• The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Power
  • Hero

• Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and I'm thinking, 'A thousand dollars to see,' I said, 'There's no ballgame in the world worth that kind of money,' and yet the attendance for sports is more than it ever has been.

  

  Frank Deford
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Money

• I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Amazing