Jason Lee Quotes

I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Fans

• The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • September
  • Egypt

• Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Workout

• Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek

• Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul

• I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Life

• You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Different
  • School
  • Bad

• That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Boy

• I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Job

• There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

  

  Mary Timony
  • Music
  • Men
  • Women

• I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Work

• Nutrition is just as important as working out.

  

  Omar Amanat
  • Important

• You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Life
  • Power

• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • Past

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Firm
  • Modest

• I suppose you could say I was always having to defend my style of captaincy. I did get a lot of criticism - some of it justified, other times as part of a tactic.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Criticism
  • Tactic
  • Captaincy

• I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'

  

  Jason Lee
  • Pull
  • Interpret
  • Open For