Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Happy
  • Meetings
  • Be Happy

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Point
  • Storytelling
  • Urban

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Sales
  • Electricity

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• I've worked hard, but this business can be tough, and I just consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the career that I have, and to still be having so much fun playing drums and making music.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Business
  • Fun

• I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Absolute

• Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Rest

• Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of 'what if' when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• This time I think that my lover Understands me If we have faith in each other Then we can be Strong, baby I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime I will be the one who loves you … 'Til the end of time.

  

  George Michael
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Father

• Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • April

• I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • Art
  • History
  • English

• From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

  

  Arthur Bloch

• I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Choices
  • Issues
  • Sense of stability

• Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Corruption

• I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Small
  • Quality

• But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Together
  • Today

• I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters