Jamie Sives Quotes

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Technology
  • India

• For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • You
  • Wall

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • America
  • Talent
  • Abundance

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Alone

• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World

• Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Job
  • Stop

• See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Forever
  • Perspective

• ...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Why
  • Preparation

• I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Work

• You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Teaches

• I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.

  

  Art Malik
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Lies

• Steve Van Zandt is a very intelligent, smart guy. He's a historian, he knows a lot about rock n' roll, a lot about music.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Rock

• I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

  

  Jamie Sives