Jillian Michaels Quotes

I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

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• I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Beach

• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Strong
  • Team
  • Brother

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Myself
  • Finding
  • Secrecy

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Gun
  • Times

• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Day
  • Thought

• Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Pretty
  • Air
  • Place

• It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Me
  • Late

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Wise

• My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • School
  • Happy

• Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

  

  Frank Reynolds

• Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

  

  Laz Alonso

• Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Song
  • Luck

• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Different
  • Song
  • Design

• I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

  

  James D'arcy
  • Life
  • Family

• It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Remember
  • Passion

• 'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Humanity
  • Forgiveness

• 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • House

• We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

  

  Andre Aciman

• I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

  

  Jillian Michaels