Jay Kay Quotes

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

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• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Interesting
  • Intelligent
  • New

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • You
  • Cheer

• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Want
  • Man
  • Always

• I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Me
  • Religious
  • Right

• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Real
  • Art
  • Fool

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• I'll tell you right nowAny trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find...

  

  Donovan
  • Book
  • Baby

• I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Friends
  • Together

• I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • World

• I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Food

• American women today want too much liberty; that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman, he treats her like a pal instead of a woman.

  

  Katy Jurado
  • Women
  • Why
  • American

• I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Career
  • Death
  • Doubt

• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Important
  • Career
  • Question

• We know that President Milosevic only moves when he is presented with the credible threat of force.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Force
  • Moves
  • President Milosevic

• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Achievement
  • Negative
  • Overcoming

• I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai