Jamie Bell Quotes

New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.

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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Car
  • Dog

• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Evolve

• When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Fear
  • Respect

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Easier

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Weird
  • Improv

• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Trust
  • Internal

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

  Sally Watson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Breakfast

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Words
  • Simple

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, 'This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will all oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof,' they will compromise with you and say 'Let's have a window.'

  

  Lu Xun
  • People
  • Dark
  • Chinese

• I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Small

• Once you drink one glass, you want another.

  

  John Forsythe

• It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

  

  Alan Rudolph
  • Up
  • Picture

• Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Political

• New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • People
  • Crazy