Jamie Zawinski Quotes

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

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• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Health

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Future
  • Day

• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Movement

• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Game
  • Man
  • Rock

• I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.

  

  Parker Young
  • Mad
  • Definition
  • Intensity

• I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Fly

• What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • You
  • Inside
  • Less

• Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Garden

• There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Work
  • Science

• I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Book
  • Know
  • Lovely

• Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • World
  • Long
  • Children

• 'Mediocrity is set as a standard...rubbish becomes acceptable. This has been the state of Tamil politics for nearly half a century'

  

  Kamal Haasan

• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Responsibility

• The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Good

• I think having children is the most amazing thing.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Children
  • Think
  • Amazing

• In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

  

  Jamie Zawinski