Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
Quotes to Explore
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores -
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
Barry Jenkins -
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte -
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken -
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
Laura Linney -
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
Vicente Fox -
We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
Larry Ellison -
I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
Hampton Sides -
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I like to race, not to do laps alone.
Fernando Alonso -
I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
Tatjana Patitz -
When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
Sam Smith -
Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
Oprah Winfrey -
I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
Vance McAllister -
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
Zhu Rongji -
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Wayne Dyer
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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
Charles Francis Richter -
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha -
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
William S. Burroughs -
In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.
Charlie Wilson -
I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
Jake Shears Scissor Sisters