Jim Finks Quotes

I operate by the seat of my pants.

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• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Value

• Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • inspirational
  • Sing

• No damn man kills me and lives.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Damn

• The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Player

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hate
  • Understand
  • Laugh

• I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Feminist

• When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Standing

• Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Years

• I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Faith

• The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People

• In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Principles
  • Produce
  • Investigation

• My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

  

  Andre Holland
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Past
  • Running
  • inspirational

• I operate by the seat of my pants.

  

  Jim Finks