Jay London Quotes

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

Jay London

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Race
  • Bestial

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Leader

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • You
  • Turn
  • Once

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Proud
  • Victory
  • Big

• Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Eyes
  • Morning
  • Learn

• I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Together
  • Team
  • Question

• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Black
  • City

• I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Energy
  • Motivated

• It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Wrong
  • Economics
  • Gas Tank

• You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to ­impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects ­everything to its needs.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Truth
  • Energy
  • Reporter

• I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

  

  Jay London