James Daly Quotes

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Different
  • You
  • Him

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • House
  • Really
  • Many

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Together
  • Song
  • Forever

• My father was very outwardly religious.

  

  John McGahern
  • Father
  • Religious

• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Memories
  • Tears
  • Village

• I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

  

  James Daly
  • People