Jeff Jordan Quotes

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Race
  • Decency

• If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Mean
  • Week
  • Class

• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Costume

• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Determination

• It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Decision

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Joy
  • Hands
  • Got

• I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.

  

  Jeff Jordan
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  • Sales