Jake Tapper Quotes

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Industry
  • Greatest

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Play
  • Day

• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Fashion
  • Period
  • Animal

• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Happy
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Good
  • Me
  • Confidence

• The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Experience
  • War
  • Wife

• I love men who make me laugh.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Men
  • Love
  • For Her

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Like
  • King
  • Rule

• When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Actor

• They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • She
  • College
  • Drama

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Time
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Green

• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  

  Paul McGann
  • Film
  • Stories
  • Artifice

• I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

  

  Sanjay Dutt
  • House
  • Situation
  • Hypothetical

• Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

  

  Jean Houston
  • World
  • Real
  • Creativity

• It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

  

  Jake Tapper