James Garner Quotes

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

James Garner

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• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Find

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Government
  • Forward
  • Where

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Exercise
  • Very
  • Diet

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Washington
  • Legislative

• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Faith
  • Model
  • Role Model

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Just

• I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Book
  • Alone

• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Children
  • America
  • High

• I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Appreciate
  • Songwriter

• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Smell

• I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Football
  • Brother
  • Child

• Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Men
  • Sight
  • Guns

• I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

  

  Clive Granger
  • Fashion

• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • American

• I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Music
  • Country
  • Heart

• What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

  

  James Garner