James Gandolfini Quotes

I want nothing to do with privilege.

James Gandolfini

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• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Home
  • True
  • Watergate

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Author
  • Living

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Me
  • Star
  • Late

• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Want
  • Better

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Life
  • Family
  • Reason

• I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Proud

• When we kicked - along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know - if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.' Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Country
  • Control

• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Suicide

• I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Believe

• I want nothing to do with privilege.

  

  James Gandolfini