James McGreevey Quotes

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey

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• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Things
  • Working
  • Extreme

• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Fact

• You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Time

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Immigration

• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Depth
  • Timing
  • Bath

• Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Car

• I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

  

  James McGreevey
  • America
  • Faith
  • Religious