Jim Coleman Quotes

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Jim Coleman

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Done
  • You
  • Sexy

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Food
  • Passion

• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Learn

• It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Understand
  • Accept

• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • America
  • Man
  • Best

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.

  

  Kate Williams
  • American
  • English
  • Stock

• The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Me
  • Enough
  • Comfortable

• Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Justice
  • Win
  • Equality

• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Parents
  • College
  • Training

• The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Win

• We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • World
  • Money
  • War

• And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

  

  Jim Coleman