Jay Kristoff Quotes

With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.

Jay Kristoff

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Years
  • Say

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Think
  • Reading

• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs were just as unqualified as I was. If I wanted to be this retailer of the future, or if I wanted to join the retailer of the future, I could just start it.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Future

• about rental car employees who ask if he wants the additional insurance

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Car
  • Insurance

• I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Pick
  • Brush

• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Mad

• I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Proud

• With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.

  

  Jay Kristoff
  • American
  • High
  • Future