Jason Woliner Quotes

With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Money
  • Power
  • Limits

• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Words
  • Like
  • Painting

• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Deep

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Three

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Children
  • Book
  • Parents

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• Strong families are vital to strong societies.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Strong
  • Families
  • VItal

• I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Turn

• Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Way
  • Care

• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • World
  • Live
  • Energy

• With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.

  

  Jason Woliner
  • Live