Jason Blum Quotes

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Military

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Help
  • Influence
  • Legal

• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Deep
  • Victory
  • Ending

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Attention

• Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Me
  • Running
  • Serious

• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Change
  • Organization

• God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

  

  Andy Stanley
  • God
  • Planning

• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Beach

• Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Lucky

• And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Fighting

• My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

  

  Jason Blum
  • Reading