James Frey Quotes

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

James Frey

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• I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Lost
  • Hurt
  • Realize

• I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • House
  • Hurt
  • Fire

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • People
  • Light
  • Hurt

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music
  • Man

• Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Hurt

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Game
  • Dad

• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt anymore.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • Funny
  • Hurt
  • Sad

• I'd like to die with my boots on.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Die
  • Like
  • Boots

• Fear lowers your immune system so let’s all find some time to be grateful and glad for what we still have. Seek out the truth and tune out all loud and vexing voices of economic propaganda. In this, human lives should come first, the health of the Planet should come first.

  

  Alexander Polinsky
  • Fear
  • Health
  • Immune System

• The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Cool

• Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

  

  Shari Arison
  • Decision
  • Spiritual
  • Army

• I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

  

  James Frey
  • Hurt