James Lipton Quotes

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

James Lipton

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• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • I Believe

• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Past
  • Know
  • Survive

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Amazing
  • News

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Great
  • Create
  • Fiction

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Parents

• Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • Adversity
  • Actions

• Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life
  • Business
  • Serious

• How you niggas want it? have it yo way burger king.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • King

• A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Humility

• You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

  

  Matt Bomer

• I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Great
  • Country
  • America

• My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Father

• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

  

  Milarepa
  • Running
  • Sticks
  • Chasing

• In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Political
  • Action

• Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Yoga

• Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Teachers
  • Saints

• They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

  

  James Lipton