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.

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• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• 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
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• 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
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• 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
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• 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
  • People
  • Job
  • Obstacles

• 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
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• I like to race, not to do laps alone.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Race

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• 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
  • Loved
  • Psychology
  • Self-Worth

• When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • People
  • Family
  • Strong

• My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.

  

  Beth Grant
  • She
  • Dream
  • Daughter

• All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Think
  • Star
  • Listening

• You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Taken

• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Years
  • Records
  • Sex Pistols

• 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