James St. James Quotes

Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Serious

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Women
  • Change
  • Better

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Done
  • Think
  • Crazy

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Yield

• Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Actions

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• 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

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question

• I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Value

• Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Remember
  • Hard
  • Drunk

• There were many in the party that did not want me to run.

  

  David Ige
  • Party

• We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Television
  • Race

• Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

  

  James St. James
  • Remember
  • Party