James Forman, Jr. Quotes

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

James Forman, Jr.

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• Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Quality
  • Win
  • Environmental

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Leadership
  • Doing
  • Class

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Walking
  • Conservative
  • Suits

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Animals
  • Relatives

• My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Small

• There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • World
  • Talent

• When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Love
  • You
  • See

• I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.

  

  Ovid

• 'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Help

• But I would dance with my daughter if I could. And if I can dance with Shilpa Shetty, then I will do that- (On being asked in an interview whether it was suitable for a man his age to dance in a song in the film Lal Badshah with Shilpa Shetty, who was young enough to be his daughter).

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Age
  • Song
  • Dance

• We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Wish

• I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Enemy
  • Decided
  • Noticed

• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.

  

  Stuart Scott
  • Live
  • Cancer
  • Beat

• I approach any collaboration I do differently.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Collaboration

• Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

  

  James Forman, Jr.