Jason Statham Quotes

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • Think
  • Fighting

• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Pretty

• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Write
  • Comfortable
  • Paper

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• 'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Challenge
  • Positive

• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Better
  • Than
  • Perpetually

• I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Quality
  • Myself

• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Truth
  • Strong

• Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

  

  Lisa Randall

• We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Brain

• Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best - there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

  

  James Boswell
  • Mind

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Friend

• Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

  

  Jason Statham