James B. Stewart Quotes

The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

James B. Stewart

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Myself
  • Singing

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • American
  • Star
  • Series

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Play
  • Write
  • Right

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Guy

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Senior
  • Happening
  • Prom

• The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Eyes
  • Coffee
  • Drinking

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Team
  • Head
  • Metal

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Satisfied
  • Tastes

• I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy.

  

  Lisa Caputo
  • Women
  • Power

• I figured things would be better in Washington, that I'd find a lot of people I admired and belonged with. Washington is worse, Paul-Ilium to the tenth power. Stupid, arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimaginative, humorless men. And the women, Paul-the dull wives feeding on the power and glory of their husbands.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Highest

• Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

  

  Alexandra Pelosi
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Perception

• The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Power
  • High
  • Responsibility