James Bobin Quotes

'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.

James Bobin

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• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • You
  • Going
  • Customers

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Day
  • Only

• I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Strong
  • Adapt
  • Surroundings

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Care
  • Say
  • Less

• While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Right
  • Theater
  • Musical

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Rest
  • Treat

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Women
  • May

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Attention

• I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Loved
  • Gentle
  • Naughty

• One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Madness

• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture
  • Exercise
  • Judge

• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Water

• But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.

  

  Alice Walker
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Silence

• When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Charity

• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  

  M. King Hubbert
  • Culture
  • Growth
  • Two

• 'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.

  

  James Bobin