James Hillman Quotes

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Hillman

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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Together
  • Science
  • Myself

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Care
  • Body
  • Learn

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Chance

• My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • House
  • Mom
  • Drama

• I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • First
  • Try

• I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Funny
  • Feel
  • Audience

• There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Think
  • Down

• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Nature

• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • World
  • Peace
  • Child

• But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Think

• If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • God
  • Live
  • Blessed

• I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.

  

  Becky G
  • You
  • Years
  • Makeup

• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Loved

• I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Moving
  • Travel

• A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • World
  • Men
  • Science

• He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Suffered
  • Doom

• When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

  

  John Perkins
  • Money
  • Power
  • Culture

• We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

  

  James Hillman