Jason Schwartzman Quotes

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

Jason Schwartzman

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• The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Game
  • End

• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Years
  • Year
  • Last

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Sweater

• I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Me
  • Star
  • Late

• I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Brain
  • Woman
  • Talent

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Confidence
  • Breathe

• The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Saying

• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think it getting a gun should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Training
  • Gun

• The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; - a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Husband

• The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Rest

• A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.

  

  Alexandre Vinet
  • Great
  • May
  • Truth

• Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Together
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Business
  • Flying

• the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Death

• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Passions
  • Diseases

• The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Contribution
  • Banks
  • Reflections

• Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

  

  Jason Schwartzman