Jason Kander Quotes

I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

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• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Party
  • Moment
  • Fight

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Love
  • Death

• The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reason
  • Process
  • Results

• Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • World
  • Desert

• Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Men

• Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • People
  • Up

• Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Son

• I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Band
  • Prayer

• People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I live to feel myself in danger.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Live

• One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Experience
  • Church

• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Why
  • Universe

• The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

  

  David Hare

• I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Time

• I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fighting

• There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Movie

• You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works.

  

  Meghan Markle

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

  

  Jason Kander
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