Jesse McCartney Quotes

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Bitter
  • Sour

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• 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

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• 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 haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Me
  • Control
  • Loved

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Support
  • Opinion

• I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Good
  • Police
  • Chinese

• You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Question

• I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Time