Jeremy Scott Quotes

I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.

Jeremy Scott

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Always
  • Film
  • Same

• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Writing
  • I Can

• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Leave
  • Lead

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Always

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Fall
  • Vulnerability

• I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

  

  Ha Jin
  • Thinking
  • Immigrants
  • Exile

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• Mini-series are my favorite medium to act in because it's the right amount of pages you shoot a day, it's the right amount of time that you're with a character, and they really advertise it a lot so that people get excited for this epic event.

  

  Neal McDonough
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • American
  • City