Jamie Zawinski Quotes

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

Jamie Zawinski

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Home
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Military
  • Service
  • Fire

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Movie

• For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Professional

• If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Human
  • Same
  • Cousins

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Live
  • House

• I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Art
  • Me
  • Attention

• Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Money
  • Growing

• I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • True
  • Yourself

• An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Night
  • Day

• Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

  

  Hal Clement
  • Believe
  • Might
  • Statistics

• True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

  

  Bill Byrd
  • Help
  • Leaders
  • Admit

• There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Real
  • Anxiety

• Work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• I really know why people need to be independent: because it's a life-saving matter.

  

  Judith Holofernes Wir sind Helden
  • Independent
  • Matter
  • Life-Saving

• Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

  

  Jamie Zawinski