Jay Samit Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
-
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
-
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
-
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
-
Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
-
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
-
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
-
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
-
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
-
The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
-
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
-
The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
-
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
-
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
-
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
-
The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.
