James H. Boren Quotes

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

James H. Boren

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• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Serious
  • Choices
  • Learn

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• I have my own studio down in Miami.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Down
  • Own
  • Miami

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Day
  • Wall
  • Down

• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

  Hank Williams
  • You
  • Like
  • Sing

• The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Summer

• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Professional
  • Successful

• We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • Food
  • Bread

• It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Know
  • Amazing

• People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  

  Mae West
  • Chance
  • Second Chance

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism

• What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Faith
  • Rest
  • Process

• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• Some days you have it; some days you don't.

  

  Max Aaron

• It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.

  

  eL Seed
  • Language
  • Identity
  • Crisis

• I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

  

  Billy Koch
  • Trying
  • Service
  • Gold

• With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

  

  Sydney Pollack
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Creating

• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  

  James H. Boren