James Lipton Quotes

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

James Lipton

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• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • God
  • Process
  • Doctor

• If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Hope
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Run
  • Fast
  • Slow

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sea

• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Always
  • Never

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Famous
  • Really

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • Men
  • Relationship

• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • World
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education

• I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Interest

• Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Time
  • Effort

• I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

  

  James Lipton
  • Interesting
  • Driving