Jeff Mangum Quotes

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Jeff Mangum

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• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

  

  Young Thug
  • World
  • Dress
  • Gangster

• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Book
  • Want
  • Saying

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Year
  • Against
  • Aggression

• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Just
  • Economics

• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness
  • Back

• I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fun

• When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

  

  Harper Lee

• But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Small

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Wish

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

  

  Lisa Morton
  • Long
  • Success
  • Night

• Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Hurt

• If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Independence

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trouble
  • Republicans
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Don’t we need some “secular” social space where diverse people of faith can encounter one another with some level of privacy and anonymity? Isn’t the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation? Questions like these have always mattered. But in the years since 9/11/01, more and more of us are realizing just how much they matter. So to imagine Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed taking a walk across a road or even getting together as friends for a meal and conversation doesn’t have to introduce a joke: it could introduce one of the most important conversations possible in today’s world.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Social space

• I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

  

  Jeff Mangum