Jeremy Paxman Quotes

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

Jeremy Paxman

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• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better

• I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Great
  • Night
  • End

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.

  

  J Mascis
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• Cinema is incredibly concise.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Cinema
  • Incredibly
  • Concise

• Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Never
  • Greatest

• The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Islam
  • Obstacle
  • Brussels

• There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • True
  • Said

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Bad
  • Alcohol
  • Addiction

• By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Important

• The logical axioms are the principle of all truth. These posit an existence towards which all cognition serves. Logic is a law which must be obeyed, and man realises himself only in so far as he is logical. He finds himself in cognition. All error must be felt to be crime. And so man must not err. He must find the truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Logic

• Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.

  

  Megyn Price
  • She
  • Society
  • Running

• Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.

  

  Daniel Drezner
  • People
  • Running
  • Mean

• I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Kind
  • Persons
  • Kenneth

• I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

  

  Jeremy Paxman