James Stewart Quotes

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Choose

• I'm not picky, quite honestly.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Honestly
  • Quite
  • Picky

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Thought

• Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Thought

• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

  

  Walter Alston
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Give

• 'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Silence

• Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Men
  • Women
  • Team

• I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.

  

  Mae West
  • Time

• All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and I truly revere Marx, Engels and Lenin.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Today

• Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Work
  • Growth
  • Grace

• Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Stars
  • Agents
  • Presses

• I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Attitude

• I try and work out as much as I can because when you exercise, it releases endorphins and makes you feel really good. I also make sure I schedule time with my friends, family, and loved ones because I realize that, as well as your physical well-being, you have to look out for your mental well-being, too.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

  

  James Stewart