Jessica Chastain Quotes

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

Jessica Chastain

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• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • More
  • Medicine
  • Practicing

• I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Acting
  • Rap
  • New York

• But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Long
  • Art

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Now
  • Surprise
  • France

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Baseball
  • Show
  • Dice

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Music
  • Protection
  • Copy

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Forgotten

• If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Democracy
  • Trump
  • Nasty

• With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

  

  Tony Scott
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• I try to eat healthily, but I love fried food and bad things. Give me a plate of bread, some oil and salt and I'm happy. But you can't eat like this all the time.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim!

  

  Meagan Tandy
  • Up
  • Done
  • Career

• I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • California
  • Hippie