James Arness Quotes

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cooking
  • Nothing
  • Eating

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • People
  • Know
  • Band

• I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • House
  • Parents

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Man
  • Practice
  • Intention

• I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Think
  • Change
  • Taken

• It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Auto

• There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Future

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • High
  • Growth

• I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

  

  James Arness
  • School
  • Guy