Jason Alexander Quotes

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

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• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Jewelry
  • Favourite
  • Wardrobe

• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• 'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Real
  • Game

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Energy
  • Amazing
  • Exercise

• There can be no security where there is fear.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Fear
  • Security
  • Where

• President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • President
  • Committed
  • Obama

• I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Age
  • Past

• I think that bloody old National nearly killed me.

  

  Laurence Olivier

• Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Sun

• We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Focus

• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Father
  • Today
  • Gangsta

• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Process
  • Sacrifice

• When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

  

  Colin Jost
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

  

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
  • Knowing
  • Rights
  • Sovereign

• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Very
  • Most

• Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

  

  Michael Imperioli
  • Movie
  • Shows
  • Theater

• I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

  

  Jason Alexander